Year: 2023

  • [Steve McQueen by, John Dominis](https://loeildelaphotographie.com/en/steve-mcqueen-by-john-dominis/) – That guy made being cool look easy.

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  • Steve McQueen by, John Dominis – That guy made being cool look easy.

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  • Island Series: 6 Pack – These look like more amazing notebooks from a boutique shop.

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  • Adopt Platform Engineering to Scale Application Security Practices – “Gartner Survey Data Reveals a Missed Opportunity – Platform teams focus on improving developer experience, developer productivity, software quality and delivery speed. According to Gartner’s 2022 Software Engineering Leaders Role Survey, only 25% of respondents cited “reduced security risks’’ as one of the top three goals…

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  • ChatGPT web traffic falls 10%, analytics show – Indeed. I think I’ve found the limitations. The main one is the limit in the text you can feed it. If I could build up my own training data, that’d be something! The Link Reader plugin solves the summarizing web pages problem that I was having. What…

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  • Scratch Pad: Fireworks, Bootlegs, Spock – “I remain convinced that most categories of online services are akin either to hair salons, to grocery stores, or to movie theaters.” Also, the Spock picture.

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  • Porter’s Five Forces and the social web – There’s something interesting to do here in applying Porter to contemporary tech.

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  • Less Upcoming Than Usual

    Less Upcoming Than Usual

    A bonus Sunday episode! Waking up this morning, my first thought was how different my job is now with less travel. Like many tech companies, we have smaller budgets for travel. The means I can only take three or so trips a quarter unless I get someone else to pay for it, or for customer/sales…

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  • If Books Could Kill – The Podcast Review #01

    If Books Could Kill – The Podcast Review #01

    I listen to a lot of podcasts, and have for, I don’t know, over 20 years. I’ve made and make a lot of podcasts. You might call me both a podcast listening and podcast creating expert. In the classic sense: a critic. I should review podcasts more frequently! If Books Could Kill – Worth the…

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  • 2023-07-07 day note

    Put out a newsletter today. The musings on using ChatGPT for school obscure the real treat: me goofing around at the expense of DevOps and Platform engineering. I also finished up a mostly polished draft of a webinar I’m giving next week. Working with Darran has been great. He knows his stuff and helps me…

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  • Unleash developer productivity with generative AI, McKinsey survey – Their survey says it’s good in four areas: Expediting manual and repetitive work, Jump-starting the first draft of new code, Accelerating updates to existing code, Increasing developers’ ability to tackle new challenges.

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  • Pulling On Threads – I forgot about the “bring your whole self” thing.

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  • How can my kids use ChatGPT to be better students?

    How can my kids use ChatGPT to be better students?

    When a good teacher seems like cheating All of the worrying about cheating with ChatGPT is hiding its biggest potential: being a teacher. As an “expert” (or, at least, well read) in digital transformation, DevOps, cloud native, blah blah, when I ask ChatGPT to do things for me, it’s mostly smell-free garbage, kindergarten stuff. But,…

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  • Amazon Prime Video’s Microservices Move Doesn’t Lead to a Monolith after All – The New Stack – At this point, who knows anymore?

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  • Rocky Linux project details how it will live on – “Nobody chooses RHEL because it’s state of the art. It isn’t. In fact, it’s about as far away from state of the art as it’s possible to be, and in the rapidly changing world of open source, that’s a very desirable attribute for a certain…

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  • How legacy tech can kill recruiting efforts, increase attrition and ruin the employee experience, Conner Forrest – “451 Research’s Voice of the Enterprise: Workforce Productivity & Collaboration, Employee Lifecycle & HR 2023 survey listed “candidates expect software or tools we haven’t adopted” as the top recruitment challenge (52%) they face. To put that into context,…

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  • Five Nos – “‘yeses’ matter more than ‘nos,’ and taking more chances generates more of each. While there’s a near equal chance of getting told ‘no’ in our endeavors, in virtually all cases, there is no penalty for that rejection beyond some brief discomfort or embarrassment. On the other hand, when you get a ‘yes,’…

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