Histoires Prodigieuses, Forward Deployed Vibes, and Skyrgamur - Related to your interests, Wednesday

Also: Spring still number one, KubeCon AI workloads, the end of Doctor No, and a buyer’s market for employees.

Line chart showing Java web framework usage from 2021 to 2025. Spring dominates at ~65-80%, dipping slightly in 2025. 'None' sits around 20-25%. Quarkus, Ktor, and JSF cluster near 5% or below. — Spring still king, from The State of Java 2025, JetBrains.

🤖 From Red Hat OpenShift to VMware Cloud Foundation 9: A Journey to a Unified Cloud Operating Model - A defense-industry case study describing a migration from OpenShift running on vSphere to VMware’s native Kubernetes stack (VKS + VCFA + VCF 9), framed around operational consolidation and TCO reduction.
Will MS Copilot Cowork Enable Real Enterprise AI Collaboration? - “Individual AI copilots are well understood at this point. What remains genuinely hard is maintaining a coherent AI context across multiple participants with different roles, permissions, and intentions in a live session.”
Here’s what that Claude Code source leak reveals about Anthropic’s plans
Block the Prompt, Not the Work: The End of “Doctor No” - “They had blocked the website. They hadn’t blocked the risk.”
The State of Java 2025 - Spring usage still number one.

- [Six Takeaways From KubeCon EU 2026](https://medium.com/intuit-engineering/six-takeaways-from-kubecon-eu-2026-bb2ebbd8559e) - Good round-up of topics at KubeCon, especially using Kubernetes to run AI workloads. - [Almost three-quarters of US workers think now's a bad time to find a quality job](https://sherwood.news/personal-finance/almost-three-quarters-of-us-workers-think-nows-a-bad-time-to-find-a-quality/) - Buyer's market for employees. - [Elizabeth I's Manuscript Copy of Pierre Boaistuau's Histoires Prodigieuses (1559)](https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/histoires-prodigieuses/) - So many fun-as-in-weird images. - [Book review: Maintenance: Of Everything (Part One)](https://unsung.aresluna.org/book-review-maintenance-of-everything-part-one) - This book review feels like it could be about most business book reviews, and wherever genre the book in question is. Namely: "This is fascinating. Tell me how? Tell me what was needed to make it happen? But, unfortunately, outside of some basic tenets of 'give the rank and file more freedom to do things' and 'embrace improvisation,' the book doesn't seem to offer more."

Wastebook

Skyrgamur - when in Iceland during Christmas, keep an eye on yogurt.
Snark! ‘Quote: “Our favorite holding period is forever”. Action: Trade Apple to realize gain.’ Here.
“Forward Deployed Vibes.” Here.
“…franchise…lettuce…offerings…” Kenji.
“the nice thing about picking your own battles is that when you’re battling yourself, you can let yourself win by not caring too much.” Ibid.

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