Year: 2023
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Here’s Something Past Its Expiration Date: the Expiration Date Itself – “Food experts broadly agree that the expiration dates on every box of crackers, can of beans and bag of apples waste money, squander perfectly good food, needlessly clog landfills, spew methane and contribute to climate change.” // And, they’re gone for the most part…
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Texas’s Biggest Barbecue City Is Attracting a New Crop of Exciting Restaurants – Lots going on in Lockhart.
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Favorite coffee-making setups from the Ars Technica staff – I made coffee with a Chemex for a few years. The coffee was good, and the overall ritual of it was just fantastic.
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Books Recommended With Uncommon Wisdom and Tender Care – “Over and over, Aoyama demonstrates how it’s done. In her Hatori ward, good fortune is not arbitrary or unearned; it is never a gauzy gift from the universe. It arises instead from action, experience and wisdom. Her characters appreciate each other; they are grateful to each…
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Privileged Sad Sack
Iowa I’m in Des Moines, Iowa for the keynote I’ll be giving at DevOpsDays here. I believe their registration is closed, so…if you’re not already registered, I won’t be seeing you! But, you can check me out rehearsing it here. There’s 20 minutes of bonus content! Like and subscribe, MOFOS! Garbage Chairs of Amsterdam. ChatDM…
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Bootstrapping ChatGPT 3.5 and ChatGPT 4 to be a Dungeon Master for solo play in Dungeons & Dragons
I’ve been experimenting/playing a lot with ChatGPT as a Dungeon Master. I like to call this “ChatDM.” That is, I’m a player, and it DMs for me. It’s not, like, great, but it is good enough if you want to co-imagine with it. Overtime, it is a great world building co-author with you. The current…
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What VMware’s AI Vision Means for Your Job – Figuring out how AI will affect tech stuff.
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Survey finds relatively few Americans actually use (or fear) ChatGPT – 30% to 40% (for young adult males) seem like a lot too me. // “Ongoing polling by Pew Research shows that although ChatGPT is gaining mindshare, only about 18% of Americans have ever actually used it. Of course that changes by demographic: Men, those…
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Man, Myth & Magic The Illustrated Encyclopedia Of Mythology 21 Volumes In 1 – This is the kind of stuff I’d pursue and spend hours looking through in the 80’s.
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Dark Mode: How Users Think About It and Issues to Avoid – A lot more on dark mode than you thought was possible to write about // “Aesthetic appeal and improved accessibility are the strongest arguments for supporting dark mode.”
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Mindsets and Tactics for New Leaders of Software Teams – Seems like good stuff.
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IncrativeOps – or notes from a recovering thought-leader
If you can’t be at DevOpsDays Des Moines later this week (or stackconf in Berlin next week) to see the final version of this presentation, here’s my first time running through it. It container about 20 minutes of…uh…bonus material.* Meaning, things I need to cut.
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In favor of crushing 2,000 Cans of Miller Highlife
Trees do not grow in straight rows This picture clarified what it’s like to be an American living in Europe. Everyday, you’re confronted by how old everything is. The word “old” deserves attention, and explains the whole point. To an American, “old” tends to be a negative term. (Well, a left leaning American, at least.)…
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Lots of Marvel super heroes this halloween, but a little more clowns than the last two years
Not much today. Halloween Clown Tailwinds From Chris Rogers at S&P Global Market Intelligence. “Among outfits, the best performers have been those linked to clowns, which increased by 43% year over year.” Somewhere, there’s a financial analyst who really cares about the increase in clown costumes this Halloween. Wastebook “So I quit my job as…
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As ChatGPT goes Enterprise, here are Ten GenAI Reality Checks you need to take… – A long list of practice advice for planning out AI use in the enterprise.
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Google’s $30-per-month “Duet” AI will craft awkward emails, images for you – All about Google’s enterprise AI announcement. For me, Google Apps/G Suite/(whatever) is hands down the best all in one collab thing – Office 365 is so weird between desktop apps and web apps that I still can’t get my mind wrapped around it.…
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Halloween creeps a little closer: Seasonal supply chains accelerate – “Among outfits, the best performers have been those linked to clowns, which increased by 43% year over year” // Somewhere, there’s a financial analyst who really cares about the increase in clown costumes this Halloween.
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New Report on Platform Engineering – what is it?
Jennifer Riggins and The New Stack crew have a good booklet out on Platform Engineering. I read over it and talked with Jennifer a couple times. I should have recorded those calls to munge into some articles, but, whatever. You should check it out, I think it’s a good go at trying to nail down…
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ChatGPT finds a role playing Dungeons & Dragons – This is what spurred me to start using ChatGPT as a ChatDM. I’ve yet to ask it questions like “describe drinking games that the satyrs are taking part in that are so dangerous someone could get hurt doing them” or “why would a Displacer Beast Kitten…
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