Also: CVEs are up 45% while exploitation stays flat, Apple tightens Full Disk Access against third-party AI agents, Europe is short 105,000 bike mechanics, and the proper way to make James Bond’s scrambled eggs.
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- Markdown for the Masses – Software Defined Talk #593 – “This week, we discuss Google Docs finally getting Markdown, Cloudflare’s CF CLI, Gartner’s agentic AI abandonment stat, and forward deployed engineers.”
- Animated Bedtime Stories, Telling Dummies What to Do, and Why Docker Lost, with Viktor Farcic – Software Defined Interviews #128 – “Viktor Farcic makes animated bedtime stories about tech history because he decided people should not have to look at his face. He also runs 20 to 50 agents at once, has them argue with each other, and reviews their work off a private YouTube channel in the morning.”
Related to your interests
- Beyond the Kubernetes complexity: Delivering an AI-Ready Platform Developers Love (Over Lunch) – What a proper platform looks like. You know, a PaaS.
- The Cloud Admin’s Path to Platform Engineering – A call to get VI admins interested in platform engineering: ”Your Challenge: if your platform team redesigned the infrastructure layer tomorrow, would anyone think to call you [a VI admin] first? What could you ship in the next 90 days to change that answer?”
- Is sandboxing sufficient to contain rogue agents? – “AI alignment isn’t really the problem here: labs just need better infrastructure.”
- VulnCheck: CVEs Up 45% in 1H-2026 but Exploitation Up Only 10%, and AI-Found Bugs Get Exploited at the Same 1.3% Rate as the Rest
- IBM and Red Hat patch 400-plus unknown Java flaws, open Clearinghouse for fix requests – Putting those 20,000 developers to work! A whole or bugs being found and fixed everywhere. Related: What Developer Teams Should Do Differently.
- Jevon’s Paradox, 70s Hollywood Edition – The editor became very important. So, like: what if same for AI?
- Apple Says It Will Further Lock Down MacOS in Response to Third-Party A.I. Agents – It’s probably a good idea, but it will be very annoying for the AI-crazed…like myself.
- Unspecified Full Disk Access Screw Tightening – Finer grained and more transparent access controls on MacOS (that have CLI options instead of just hard-enforced GUI modals) would be cool.
- Europe Needs 105,000 More Bike Mechanics by 2032 as Maintenance Barriers Keep 121 Million From Riding More
- Tom Cruise’s Digger has flopped spectacularly – but I think it is a misunderstood masterpiece – Seems like it’d be fun to watch. Related: ¯\_(ツ)\_/¯
- Scrambled Eggs ‘James Bond’ – “For FOUR individualists: 12 fresh eggs; Salt and pepper; 5-6 oz. of fresh butter.”
Upcoming Talks
- VMware Explore on Tour 2026 Frankfurt – Frankfurt, Germany, October 13th, 2026. “Build a Platform That Developers Want to Use”
- DevOpsDays Istanbul 2026 – Istanbul, Turkey, October 24th, 2026. Keynote, title to come.
- VMware Explore on Tour 2026 London – London, UK, November 18th, 2026. “Build a Platform That Developers Want to Use”
- Cloud Native Denmark 2026 – Copenhagen, Denmark, November 19th, 2026. “What goblins and druids can teach us about enterprise AI”
- Build Stuff 2026 – Vilnius, Lithuania, December 2nd-4th, 2026. “What goblins and druids can teach us about enterprise AI”
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