7 Feb, 2023: The more kubernetes you use, the more frequently you release software and other insights from the …
2 Feb, 2023: Today’s episode - Kubernetes is great, but it’s been a 7 year distraction: The snow globe is …
31 Jan, 2023: How AI could help and harm management consultant firms - It’s probably mostly good, especially …
30 Jan, 2023: Today’s newsletter episode - Maximizing ROI: The Key to Successful Enterprise Software Company …
28 Jan, 2023: Today’s episode: The finger-wagger is usually just me finger-wagging at myself - Two exhausted …
27 Jan, 2023: Today’s episode: ChatGPT creates a digital transformation strategy for a pharmacy company - …
26 Jan, 2023: Today’s newsletter episode: Product Management in Platform Engineering - Treating developers …
25 Jan, 2023: Today’s episode: When can we just profit and chill? - $34.6 billion times four divided by …
24 Jan, 2023: Today’s newsletter episode: If it’s bullshit work, have the bullshit-artist do it - Using AI for …
24 Jan, 2023: ChatGPT answers your questions about the new unlimited PTO policy - a FAQ Another example from my playing around with a new talk idea. Here, I ask ChatGPT to write a FAQ for …
24 Jan, 2023: ChatGPT Makes the Case for Pair Programming This is from working on a talk of mine about using ChatGPT to reduce bureaucratic toil It is written …
23 Jan, 2023: FY23: I got TikTok youths to watch my B2B videos about enterprise kubernetes & digital …
22 Jan, 2023: Today’s newsletter episode: Fond memories for the old days when the only thing the Internet …
20 Jan, 2023: Today’s newsletter episode: The Eternal Recurrence of DevOps, or, learning to love …
19 Jan, 2023: Today’s newsletter episode: “catatonic leadership” IBM is the best positioned to …
18 Jan, 2023: Today’s newsletter episode - Bottleneck of Worry - Accepting failure, defeat, and discomfort …
17 Jan, 2023: Living with “a self-styled countess and her companion, a blackmailer, alchemist, magician and …
15 Jan, 2023: Sunday evening episode of my newsletter, read and subscribe.
13 Jan, 2023: New episode of my newsletter: using ChatGPT to flesh out a thought leader style article, lots of …
13 Jan, 2023: “I’m sorry I made you wait. But, I was busy making you wait.” Slow Horses, s2e4
13 Jan, 2023: 🔗 What Top Tech Leaders Are Saying About Multi-Cloud Security, IT Innovation and Efficiency - …
13 Jan, 2023: 🔗 Take control of the story you tell about yourself - Three themes you should put in your self-story …
12 Jan, 2023: 🔗 The Executive Target Persona - Part Two - More on running executive dinner events for tech company …
12 Jan, 2023: 🔗 CNET Is Quietly Publishing Entire Articles Generated By AI - “AP’s justification for …
12 Jan, 2023: “I’ve seen some people call these YouTube poops, which is a style of absurdist video content …
12 Jan, 2023: Take from a student in using The AI for school: it’s useless for cheating because you …
12 Jan, 2023: 🔗 Gartner Survey Identifies the Top 10 Priorities for CFOs in 2023 - 68% is still pretty high, but …
12 Jan, 2023: This is the time of year when you have to report on your work from last year. And you’re …
12 Jan, 2023: 🔗 to be my self is to be lonely - “My loneliness is more of an existential loneliness: I feel …
11 Jan, 2023: Newsletter: “No, you don’t want to have to compare yourself to that” My newsletter this week: keep more of the value you create, or stop striving if the gap can’t …
11 Jan, 2023: 🔗 Zurich launches global API marketplace - Reinsurance News - “Zurich eXchange currently …
11 Jan, 2023: 🔗 Eliminating non-compete clauses in the US - “The agency estimated that the rule could …
11 Jan, 2023: 🔗 Are people actually paying for email newsletters? - Who knows, but I hope so.
11 Jan, 2023: 🔗 What TNS Readers Want in 2023: More DevOps, API Coverage - The New Stack - Ideas for your tech …
11 Jan, 2023: 🔗 Salesforce and Slack don’t seem to have compelling synergies? - This doesn’t really cover …
10 Jan, 2023: 🔗 Meet the Designer of the Fanciful Subway Entrances to the Paris Métro - Looks good, as always.
10 Jan, 2023: 🔗 Five Strategies to Control Cloud Costs - I go over exactly what the title says giving a nudge on …
10 Jan, 2023: 🔗 Weekend Reading — Garlic expressions - Has a good round-up or positive uses for ChatGPT, plus some …
10 Jan, 2023: 🔗 Changing moods on IT investment - a gift to ERP leaders, or coal in the stocking? - People are …
7 Jan, 2023: 🔗 What explains recent tech layoffs, and why should we be worried? - He’s not a fan: …
7 Jan, 2023: 🔗 omg.lol - A lovable web page and email address, just for you - This is giving me strong …
7 Jan, 2023: 🔗 GPT and my own career trajectory - Tyler continues his embrace for The AI. it opens up new ways of …
7 Jan, 2023: 🔗 The Startup M&A Market Fell 94% Year over Year - But One Segment is Thriving - “A $22m …
7 Jan, 2023: 🔗 Things I learned while looking up other things, 2022.12.11 - Words!
7 Jan, 2023: 🔗 We Asked 850 Cut Readers What’s Tasteful and What’s Tacky - Who knows if these are all still …
7 Jan, 2023: 🔗 Neubrutalism is taking over the web | Hype4Academy - “I believe those designs are straining …
7 Jan, 2023: 🔗 Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke Tells Employees To Just Say No to Meetings - “It’s much easier to add …
7 Jan, 2023: 🔗 Dell reportedly planning Chinese chip purge by 2024 - “The PC and tech infrastructure maker …
5 Jan, 2023: “It irked him to think that art—he did believe in art—could turn into just another thing to make …
5 Jan, 2023: 🔗 Keeping your day job - Considerations for keeping your day job: steady income, being with people, …
5 Jan, 2023: 🔗 You Can Use Both Features and Benefits in Your Developer Marketing - Even though they may not ask …
5 Jan, 2023: 🔗 What Can We Learn from Barnes & Noble’s Surprising Turnaround? - First: you should like …
3 Jan, 2023: 🔗 The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI - The web will be full of (good enough) text from the …
2 Jan, 2023: 🔗 Be Wary of Imitating High-Status People Who Can Afford to Countersignal - If you’re new, you …
1 Jan, 2023: acting your wage 🔗 Your Coworkers Are Less Ambitious; Bosses Adjust to the New Order - A long piece on “acting …
31 Dec, 2022: 🔗 Why the super rich are inevitable - A model of wealth accumulation. Of late, I’ve been …
31 Dec, 2022: 🔗 Here’s who helped Elon Musk buy Twitter - Those that bankrolled the Twitter acquisition, thus, …
31 Dec, 2022: 🔗 And then what? - > If you’re trying to get through your work as quickly as you can, then maybe …
31 Dec, 2022: 🔗 How One Jobseeker Used AI to Apply for 200 Jobs in 2 Days - “AI and other emerging …
31 Dec, 2022: 🔗 From the Twitter Files - Every group has a version of “I don’t want to read all this, …
31 Dec, 2022: 🔗 What Was the TED Talk? - “anyone is capable of giving a TED-esque talk. You just need an …
28 Dec, 2022: 🔗 movie cards - A method for tracking moment to moment narrative, with links between scenes and …
28 Dec, 2022: 🔗 Blogging as thinking - “blogging remains my favorite format precisely because the writing so …
28 Dec, 2022: 🔗 The 7 tech journalism stories - “New, exciting tech company will revolutionize everything!” …
18 Dec, 2022: Today’s newsletter: Using Apple Freeform for a Digital Wunderkammer - Using the new white …
18 Dec, 2022: 🔗 IT history of Kmart - EDI!
17 Dec, 2022: 🔗 The death of society, for real this time - I haven read this kind of “the internet is …
17 Dec, 2022: 🔗 Tools eat culture for breakfast - Good stuff here: how you work is determined by the tools you …
16 Dec, 2022: Things Platform Engineering Needs to Do, also, in relation to DevOps 🔗 Platform Engineering Needs a Prescriptive Roadmap: A Conversation with Nigel Kersten I very …
16 Dec, 2022: 🔗 Google execs on ChatGPT - Wow, this is setup to be a classic case of Disruption in the works: the …
16 Dec, 2022: Plans for application modernization Highlighrs on from a survey, from Jean Atelsek and Melanie Posey at 451/S&P: “Most …
15 Dec, 2022: 🔗 Digital Experience Technology Success Metrics For Marketers - Four categories of metrics.
15 Dec, 2022: 🔗 Your Guide to Radical Designs: - Of course I’m a fool for this aesthetic.
15 Dec, 2022: 🔗 Tech sector layoffs barely dent demand for IT talent - Plenty of tech jobs out there, it seems: …
15 Dec, 2022: 🔗 Large language model hype has reached the enterprise - “For example, LLMs could …
15 Dec, 2022: 🔗 New research aims to analyze how widespread COBOL is - “Micro Focus, the UK software outfit …
14 Dec, 2022: No one likes dealing with compliance, but “[d]one well, a process should enable simplicity, …
13 Dec, 2022: 2023 Predictions, Hopes and Dreams It’s the last episode of the year so the three of us go over not only predictions in the cloud …
13 Dec, 2022: ☞ AI Replaces Bullshit Work That We Shouldn’t Be Doing In The First Place - early week newsletter …
13 Dec, 2022: 🔗 GitHub - f/awesome-chatgpt-prompts: This repo includes ChatGPT promt curation to use ChatGPT …
12 Dec, 2022: 🔗 The Struggle To Be Human - “Anyone’s first draft is essentially a piece of bullshit; so is a …
12 Dec, 2022: 🔗 My secret life as an 11-year-old BBS sysop - I started on BBSes, and we all ran one. So much fun.
12 Dec, 2022: 🔗 Life After Lifestyle - “in the cultural production service economy, all culture is made in …
12 Dec, 2022: 🔗 what is the point of sharing online -
11 Dec, 2022: I don’t want to subject you to all the AI generated pictures I’ve been generating, but …
11 Dec, 2022: From midjourney
11 Dec, 2022: From midjourney
11 Dec, 2022: A Polaroid picture of a rainy street in Amsterdam with neon signs of animals and one 1940s private …
9 Dec, 2022: 🔗 Shareholder Value - “In Douglas Rushkoff’s new book, he acknowledges that he was wrong to …
9 Dec, 2022: 🔗 Beware of “Coherent Nonsense” When Implementing Generative AI - That’s a good way of saying …
9 Dec, 2022: 🔗 [KPMG: The playbook for a successful](business transformation) - www.kpmg.us/insights/… The …
9 Dec, 2022: 🔗 The Hollow Core of Kevin Kelly’s “Thousand True Fans” Theory - Getting a …
9 Dec, 2022: Getting ChatGPT to write better cold-call emails for inside sales I get a lot of insider sales emails offering up services that an enterprise software marketing …
9 Dec, 2022: See more private investigators in the rainy streets of Amsterdam.
8 Dec, 2022: 🔗 Do you know more about Kubernetes than ChatGPT? - For some people, this would be considered …
8 Dec, 2022: 🔗 AWS Previews Amazon CodeCatalyst to Automatically Create Dev Environments - DevOps.com - Another …
8 Dec, 2022: 🔗 9 Insights on Real-World Container Use - Good stuff in here.
8 Dec, 2022: 🔗 Apple Expands End-to-End Encryption to iCloud Backups - // Apple’s (helpful) obsession with …
8 Dec, 2022: How news organizations, and individuals, use TikTok. It’s an extremely thorough overview of …
8 Dec, 2022: A rainy street in Amsterdam with neon signs and one 1940s private investigator in a trench coat in …
8 Dec, 2022: Bruegel Generation A Pieter Bruegel the Elder painting of an endless, messy library filled with books, scrolls, busts …
7 Dec, 2022: The Influence of Susan Sontag, Joan Didion, and Hunter Thompson on Chuck Klosterman (according to OpenAI ChatGPT) I did this in the Playground. My prompts are in italics. I don’t understand Susan …
7 Dec, 2022: My newsletter this week goes over my experiments and thinking about the OpenAI ChatGPT thing. …
7 Dec, 2022: Notes and References: Platform Engineering Needs Marketing and Advocacy to be Successful When you build and run a platform inside a large organization, you have to do a lot of marketing, …
7 Dec, 2022: DevOps is Dead, and, People Who Write "DevOps Is Dead" are Wrong (as written by OpenAI ChatGPT) Here is the prompt I used: Could you write an 800 word article on the idea that “DevOps is …
7 Dec, 2022: Seven reasons why you should pay for kubernetes...and seven reasons why you should not pay for kubernetes (as written by OpenAI ChatGPT) Some of the text is generated by ChatGPT. So, here I wanted to see if ChatGPT could write filler …
7 Dec, 2022: Why OKRs are bad and you should not use them (as written by OpenAI ChatGPT) This is text generated by ChatGPT. Here’s the prompt I used: Could you write a memo …
7 Dec, 2022: How do product managers use a backlog in agile software development? (as written by OpenAI ChatGPT) Here’s another video script generated by ChatGPT. Pretty good, huh? Here’s the …
7 Dec, 2022: What is Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)? Why is CI/CD good? (as written by OpenAI ChatGPT) I originally asked ChatGPT to tell me what Spotify’s golden path concept is, but it instead …
7 Dec, 2022: 🔗 What if failure is the plan? - Some wonderful 00’s internet history and even better thinking …
6 Dec, 2022: Why Self-Help Books are Bullshit (as written by OpenAI ChatGPT) Here’s the prompt I gave ChatGPT: Please write an 800 word opinion piece on why self-help …
6 Dec, 2022: 12 ideas for blog posts on Monster Truck Models (as written by OpenAI ChatGPT) The prompt I gave ChatGPT: “Please write a blog post going over twelve ideas for newsletter …
5 Dec, 2022: Great talk on the product management side of platform engineering, platform as a product, from …
5 Dec, 2022: Dealing with tech debt and legacy software? Check out my summary of how large organizations …
4 Dec, 2022: 🔗 The ‘Suicide’ of the Liberal Arts - “According to U.S. Education Department data, students …
4 Dec, 2022: 🔗 Introducing a product delivery culture at Etsy - Project to produce think.
4 Dec, 2022: “He was from the streets of Bastrop. And then he flew all the way to Sydney.” SDT
4 Dec, 2022: “Each try takes me further from whatever it is I’m after. I finish on an alien shore with a raft of …
2 Dec, 2022: What is native Java? And what is GraalVM…and why do you need Spring Native? In this episode, …
2 Dec, 2022: 🔗 A fine history of RedMonk - with an infographic even!
2 Dec, 2022: 🔗 The fediverse and the indieweb - “One of the indieweb’s oldest ideas, Publish (on your) Own …
2 Dec, 2022: 🔗 Tech Companies May Be Laying Off Employees, But Tech Workers Are Still In Demand - Tech companies …
29 Nov, 2022: Garbage Chairs of Amsterdam
29 Nov, 2022: Snack Shack
29 Nov, 2022: 👨🏻🏫 Later this morning, you can see my take on the state of the kubernetes world. Or just register …
29 Nov, 2022: Thrift Store Finds
29 Nov, 2022: Foggy
29 Nov, 2022: Math Homework
27 Nov, 2022: 🔗 Bye, Twitter - “I don’t like making unpaid contributions to a for-profit publisher whose …
26 Nov, 2022: 🔗 Continuous Discovery Habits with Teresa Torres - ‘“Before the internet, waterfall and …
25 Nov, 2022: Garbage Chairs of Amsterdam.
24 Nov, 2022: It’s Thanksgiving today. I live in Amsterdam, so it’s not like it’s Thanksgiving …
24 Nov, 2022: 🔗 “We already tried second life." - Enterprise VR. IBM was huge in SecondLife.
24 Nov, 2022: 🔗 Apple Podcast algorithms - “I notice these things because it’s shocking how quickly some …
24 Nov, 2022: 🔗 Atlassian’s Compass Unites Tool and Code Sprawl - Atlassian’s internal developer …
24 Nov, 2022: 🔗 “As I talk to CEOs and CIOs pretty much across the globe, almost none of them are talking …
24 Nov, 2022: 🔗 The Rise of Platform Engineering - Software Engineering Daily - Pretty good, but sort of goes …
24 Nov, 2022: 🔗 Maybe the Real Tech Debt was the Friends we Made Along the Way - New tech debt definitions just …
24 Nov, 2022: 🔗 Maybe the Real Tech Debt was the Friends we Made Along the Way - New tech debt definitions just …
24 Nov, 2022: 🔗 ooh.directory - “I’ve just opened the doors on a new project I’ve been working on, …
24 Nov, 2022: 🔗 Why journalists are so desperate to find a Twitter alternative - “That’s because Twitter has …
22 Nov, 2022: 🎶 I’m enjoying re-discovering DJ-driven music shows. There’s so many sites and shows …
22 Nov, 2022: 🔗 A world rebalancing - Macro/headwind, blah blah predictions.
22 Nov, 2022: 🔗 Tutorial: Introduction to VMware Tanzu Application Platform -
22 Nov, 2022: 🔗 Somebody is going to wake up to a potato in their shoe. -
22 Nov, 2022: 🔗 Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conference 2022 London: Day 1 …
22 Nov, 2022: 🔗 Amazon Alexa is a “colossal failure,” on pace to lose $10 billion this year - ‘Amazon also …
21 Nov, 2022: #liminalspaces
21 Nov, 2022: #liminalspace
21 Nov, 2022: 🔗 Platforms at Kubecon 2022 | Partly Cloudy - A CNCF group working on defining what a …
21 Nov, 2022: 🔗 Building Kubernetes Applications with Acorn - Gives you some more detail on what Acorn is: …
21 Nov, 2022: App modernization survey: a lot of just moving existing apps to containers? 🔗 Application Modernization Report Shows Need For Kubernetes-specific Migration Tooling (RedHat …
21 Nov, 2022: 🔗 Considerations when implementing developer portals in regulated enterprise environments - Good …
21 Nov, 2022: 🔗 Free introduction to Backstage course now available, from CNCF - “8-10 hours of insights into …
21 Nov, 2022: 🔗 Palo Alto Networks Buys Cider Security to Lock Down Pipelines - “Cider Security developed …
21 Nov, 2022: #FreeShitMonday! Here’s the collection of columns I wrote for The Register on agile, DevOps, …
20 Nov, 2022: 🔗 OpenStack passes 40 million cores in production use - “OpenStack adoption has hit 40 million …
18 Nov, 2022: 🔗 CHARLES SAATCHI - God damn I love that aesthetic.
18 Nov, 2022: 🔗 7 Ways to Improve the Developer Experience and Accelerate Software Delivery on Kubernetes - I hear …
18 Nov, 2022: 🔗 Don’t buy the cloud repatriation claptrap - Also, it’s probably like when I try to switch …
18 Nov, 2022: 🔗 I’m remembering that thing you can do with toddlers - redirection. They’re throwing a …
18 Nov, 2022: 🔗 With password stuff going the way it’s going, middle-school is going to need a …
18 Nov, 2022: 🔗 Novel use of LinkedIn - “On the growth side, I would add the max amount of people LinkedIn …
18 Nov, 2022: 🔗 Good think on devrel strategic planning, from Laura Santamaria - “Strategy is a definition …
18 Nov, 2022: 🔗 Case Study: How SeatGeek Adopted HashiCorp’s Nomad - Will have to read one day.
18 Nov, 2022: 🔗 5 ways to cut waste in cloud spending: McKinsey - Probably useful.
18 Nov, 2022: 🔗 New in Planview Tasktop Viz®: Time-to-Market Insights - When it comes to serious enterprise …
18 Nov, 2022: 🔗 Things could be better - Study finds that people think optimistically be default. Also shows that …
18 Nov, 2022: Garbage Chairs of Amsterdam.
18 Nov, 2022: Garbage Chairs of Amsterdam.
18 Nov, 2022: This week’s Software Defined Talk podcast episde. I don’t think I go as crazytaining as …
17 Nov, 2022: CFP'ing I’ve been doing a lot of CFP’s this week for conferences. I’ve grown laxed through …
17 Nov, 2022: 🔗 “Live rent-free in my head” - This definition is not very good, but the concept is …
17 Nov, 2022: 🔗 Evernote’s fall from grace is complete, with sale to Italian app maker - “Note-taking …
17 Nov, 2022: Urgency I’ve started writing this bit two times (see the community one and the one on ICs vs. managers …
17 Nov, 2022: The community is moving The people in my tech community who talk about community find Twitter so vile that there’s …
17 Nov, 2022: Publishing versus orchestrating You can focus on short term delivery, or long term delivery. Do you follow the Twitter drama …
16 Nov, 2022: Catching up on analysts Reading through analyst reports this morning, as you can see in the link posts. I was an analyst for …
16 Nov, 2022: 🔗 Doing just fine, untransformed, Brenon Daly, 451 - ‘As life starts to return to normal and …
16 Nov, 2022: Kubernetes market-size - around $2bn in 2022? Kubernetes primer: The technology and its market, 451/S&P, August 2022 - “Our tracking of …
16 Nov, 2022: 22% of organizations say kubernetes has "[f]ull adoption across 100% of IT organization" This is from S&P Global Market Intelligence (formally 451 Research - I used to work there)! …
16 Nov, 2022: IDC's developer tools market-sizing: "$5.1 billion in 2021 to $6.8 billion in 2026, reflecting a CAGR of 5.9%" See the details in the report by. You could, loosely, call this a direct developer market: things …
16 Nov, 2022: 🔗 Improve Developer Engagement With Online Portals, Forrester - Pretty good devrel advice here for …
16 Nov, 2022: Barriers to better developer experience. More in the survey summary, plus read the survey itself.
16 Nov, 2022: Garbage Chairs of Amsterdam.
15 Nov, 2022: All that digital transformation, DevOps, whatever stuff is going to require organization change. For …
15 Nov, 2022: Tanzu Talk News for this week: highlights from #VMwareExplore; Backstage/DX/platform engineering …
15 Nov, 2022: Analysis paralysis in the candy store; investing in the past self, or not From Justin Warren’s Nov 14th newsletter: “You pretty much never have perfect …
15 Nov, 2022: 🔗 Zoom now integrates Mail and Calendar into its One interface - I welcome all attempts to make …
14 Nov, 2022: The Vibe at Cloud Foundry Day - Tanzu Talk podcast. What’s going on in the Cloud Foundry community? …
14 Nov, 2022: Nice pre-computer charts and data tables from An Intermediate Commercial Geography, Part 1: Commodities and World Trade by L. Dudley Stamp (1965/1927) Some great chart and tables design in this book: Letting the Argintine bar go outside the chart is …
14 Nov, 2022: 🔗 Does Kubernetes really give you multicloud portability? McKinsey Digital - Can you predict the …
14 Nov, 2022: 🔗 After Twitter - Brian’s an often nostalgic and thankful enology of Twitter. So many …
13 Nov, 2022: My newsletter this week: some notes on attending conferences, notes on enterprise open source …
13 Nov, 2022: 🔗 Room To Dream | Orbital Operations - > Lynch’s career fascinates me. He’ll try …
13 Nov, 2022: 🔗 Newsletters of note - Some fun, you know, web-rustic newsletters from the twenty-teens UK digital …
13 Nov, 2022: 🔗 The Seven Levels of Busy - Level 8: now that everything is burning down to red hot coals: who …
13 Nov, 2022: 🔗 Author’s note - “I don’t think I’ve ever written about my theory of short stories, …
13 Nov, 2022: 🔗 Inside the Twitter meltdown - It’s a good list of digital transformation anti-patterns. …
13 Nov, 2022: 🔗 Software is only as valuable as how it’s used - This is a fine point to ponder, especially …
13 Nov, 2022: 🔗 A Guide to Discovery and Framing - Figuring out what to do in software.
13 Nov, 2022: 🔗 YouTube Music and Premium gained 30 million subscribers in just one year - “YouTube’s Music …
13 Nov, 2022: 🔗 Security on Twitter - by Ben Werdmuller - Werd.io - Too paranoid? Probably, but also a good list …
13 Nov, 2022: 🔗 “It’s not a data lake, it’s a peat bog” - Big data isn’t that big of a deal to a …
13 Nov, 2022: 🔗 [For connoisseurs of the English language. qz.com/work/1225…](Several ways to describe …
13 Nov, 2022: 🔗 12 Ways to Prepare your Monolith Before Transitioning to Microservices - Small and little ways.
12 Nov, 2022: Garbage Chairs of Amsterdam.
11 Nov, 2022: What's Backstage, and How are people using backstage to improve developer productivity? In this Tanzu Talk podcast episode, I talk with Charles Lowell and Taras Mankovski of The Frontside …
10 Nov, 2022: A huge crush of people. For most of the evening I only made it to the edge of the throng. Then …
10 Nov, 2022: 🔗 “Both of us typing really fast. It’d be fun.”
7 Nov, 2022: The "Be Nice" product and marketing strategy for open source enterprise stuff Early on in the life of a new open source project, some vendors will tell you it’s too complex …
7 Nov, 2022: 🔗 Tech economics – A Whole Lotta Nothing - “See the teeny tiny flattening of the steep curve …
7 Nov, 2022: 🔗 learned helplessness and necessary help - On getting of a rut; needing someone else to walk you …
7 Nov, 2022: 🔗 What to blog - Ben is doing a good series on blogging. Here, it is as the title says, but most …
7 Nov, 2022: 🔗 Big pictures - Presentations before PowetPoint, really glitzy ones. Also, the whole aesthetic to …
6 Nov, 2022: My newsletter this week. Mostly links and self-promotion, but, you know, still fantastic, if I must …
6 Nov, 2022: 🔗 8 types of edge computing from Gartner - Not much text, but a diagram.
6 Nov, 2022: 🔗 Applying Golden Path - Using lean/MVP think to find and then refine the golden path to production.
6 Nov, 2022: 🔗 Russell Davies: Make things bigger Part One - YES. I AGREE.
6 Nov, 2022: 🔗 GREG ISENBERG on Twitter: “I asked 1 billionaire, 1 PHD math professor and 1 99 year old man …
6 Nov, 2022: 🔗 A Birthday Surprise RedMonk reflections - I was hired as the first not founder analyst at RedMonk …
6 Nov, 2022: 🔗 How To Photograph Homes At Night Like Todd Hido Pretty fantastic for #liminalspaces fans (like …
6 Nov, 2022: 🔗 IDC- Transforming Workloads Through Application Modernization - “IDC estimates that there …
6 Nov, 2022: 🔗 Slow Work and Plain Chant – An Apology for the Failed Life | The Junket - “Whatever it is …
5 Nov, 2022: Thinking about a new look
5 Nov, 2022: In Vienna
5 Nov, 2022: Tex-Mex
5 Nov, 2022: 🔗 Meta Myths – Stratechery by Ben Thompson - So…things are…actually just fine…?
5 Nov, 2022: 🔗 🚴 Sentinel S60 Smart bicycle lock - I like this lock, but it’s worth more than my actual …
5 Nov, 2022: 🔗 Swordfish90/cool-retro-term: A good looking terminal emulator which mimics the old cathode …
5 Nov, 2022: 🔗 Grounding Twitter Ad Dollars Is Common Sense, Not Activism -
4 Nov, 2022: Most meetings should probably always be an hour. If you could do it in less, it likely should just …
3 Nov, 2022: Words are Fun People often misunderstand me when I say “fifty” as saying “fifteen.” These …
3 Nov, 2022: Judging people based on how they make you feel, not how they actually are.
3 Nov, 2022: “He smiled at me. And I saw the lines where other smiles had been.” The Story of …
3 Nov, 2022: 🔗 Cutting the Strings: Staying Lean in a SAFe Organization - Little changes to do lean software …
3 Nov, 2022: Whether or not you know what you’re doing, you’re doing it.
3 Nov, 2022: Focus more on getting better at what you’re already doing instead of radically changing …
3 Nov, 2022: “Hey, let’s not worry about Adventure Man right now.
3 Nov, 2022: 🔗 Six Common Friction Points in the Developer Journey - “The six points of friction we see …
3 Nov, 2022: 🔗 Decompose monoliths using business workflows - Really nice, but brief overview of how SWIFT …
3 Nov, 2022: I talk a little bit about managing your open source usage: security isn’t really a big deal if …
3 Nov, 2022: 🎙️ Building a platform engineering team, interview with Darran Rice How do you build your platform engineering team? You’re probably already employing all sorts …
3 Nov, 2022: Reluctant to Change Crusties People will resist changing, and probably for good reasons. Here’s six ways to help them be happy …
3 Nov, 2022: Developer Toil Jargon Watch - "golden path." Right now, the favorite phrase is “golden path.” In 2020, Spotify defined it “The …
3 Nov, 2022: 🔗 Singapore to phase out checks by 205 - It often feels like so much innovation in finance is just …
3 Nov, 2022: 🔗 Cutting R&D to Grow GTM Spend : Is it Happening Across Software Companies? - “R&D as …
3 Nov, 2022: 🔗 DATEV slices up their monolith - The slicing up the monolith works! ‘The Tanzu Labs approach …
2 Nov, 2022: Garbage Chairs of Amsterdam
2 Nov, 2022: Garbage Chairs of Amsterdam.
2 Nov, 2022: #20YearsOfRedMonk I got my big break when James Governor and Stephan O’Grady hired me in 2005 at RedMonk. They …
2 Nov, 2022: I am importing my WordPress site since I last used microblog. Eventually, I’ll cut over from …
2 Nov, 2022: [Link] Applying Golden Path Using lean/MVP think to find and then refine the golden path to production. Original source: …
2 Nov, 2022: [Link] 8 types of edge computing from Gartner Not much text, but a diagram. Original source: 8 types of edge computing from Gartner
31 Oct, 2022: Newsletter out My latest newsletter was sent out this weekend. It collects fun snippets of text I’ve found, …
28 Oct, 2022: [Link] a 6 person thumbnail team Original source: a 6 person thumbnail team
28 Oct, 2022: [Link] Rats, Levers, and Parks: Designing Better Choices “Then a smarter group of researchers had another idea. If you were stuck in a cage with …
28 Oct, 2022: [Link] Infrastructure for apps: Platforms for cooperative delivery Alternate phrase for the platform engineering idea: “DevOps for Kubernetes.” Maybe …
28 Oct, 2022: [Link] Broadcom CEO says hiking VMware prices is not his strategy “I see Tanzu as a strategic part of the VMware software portfolio and it will remain that way …
28 Oct, 2022: [Link] Service Mesh Demand for Kubernetes Shifts to Security “The number-one driver Linkerd these days is the security feature. That was surprising for us …
22 Oct, 2022: [Link] Software Defined Talk Episode 382: The Ultimate Dogfooding This week we discuss Aboard.io, cutting cloud costs, commute hours and final thoughts on Google …
22 Oct, 2022: [Link] Google Cloud Seeing ‘Significant’ VMware ‘Momentum’: GM “How big of an opportunity here is VMware Engine for Google Cloud and your partners? I’m going …
22 Oct, 2022: [Link] Disruption for Doctors: the Rise of Selfcare “But guess what: consumers spend more money each year on AirPods than healthcare spends each …
22 Oct, 2022: [Link] Mailbag: What isn't measurable? To hire as exec or not? “At Calm, I’ve focused on measuring engineering through the number of features shipped, …
22 Oct, 2022: [Link] "Acting your wage" “But what is a quiet quitter? From TikTok to consulting firms, the general definition of a …
22 Oct, 2022: [Link] Platform Product Management Versus Platform Engineering Yeah, hopefully all this platform engineering talk will return to platform as a product, figuring …
22 Oct, 2022: Open Source usage survey Some commentary on a recent survey commissioned from my work, VMware. Unsurprisingly, open source is …
22 Oct, 2022: [embed]youtube.com/shorts/W3…[/embed]
20 Oct, 2022: [Link] Apple Announces Strange New iPad and iPad Pro Lineup “This Lineup is Super Weird” Original source: Apple Announces Strange New iPad and iPad …
20 Oct, 2022: [Link] Gartner Survey of Over 2,000 CIOs Reveals the Need to Accelerate Time to Value from Digital Investments “CIOs’ top areas of increased investment for 2023 include cyber and information security …
20 Oct, 2022: [Link] The B2C CMO’s Environmental Sustainability Blueprint Holy crap that’s a huge difference! “In Europe, 57% of C-level leaders see sustainability as the …
20 Oct, 2022: [Link] Gartner Identifies the Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2023 Gartner predicts that 80% of software engineering organizations will establish platform teams by …
20 Oct, 2022: [Link] On the Spectrum of Application Modernization “Over the past 5 years, businesses have ost an average 23 percent of their mainframe …
20 Oct, 2022: [Link] Platform Engineering: What Is It and Who Does It? Another go at the platform engineering thought-leader piece. Original source: Platform Engineering: …
20 Oct, 2022: [Link] Most Government Orgs Fail to Meet Digital Transformation Objectives, Report Finds “According to the report, only 7% of surveyed government leaders said their organization …
20 Oct, 2022: [Link] What We Learned from Enabling Developer Self-Service More for the “what is platform engineering?” pile. Original source: What We Learned from …
20 Oct, 2022: [Link] US and Europe cloud prices to spike on back of inflation “The cost of borrowing is rising in Europe. It went up by 22 percent in September, and the …
20 Oct, 2022: [Link] A Museum Security Expert on How to Protect Great Art - The Atlantic “it’s pretty darn hard to protect a painting from somebody throwing a can of soup at it.” Original …
11 Oct, 2022: Vico Monster Munch Ketchup Review [www.youtube.com/shorts/8b...](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8bzyjVXMlb4)
11 Oct, 2022: We try Vico Monster Munch Gout Jambon Fromage chips [www.youtube.com/watch](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTg9jtrZQ4c)
11 Oct, 2022: [Link] Why do new cars look like this?? ["Wet Putty"] “It’s a prime example of how a jawn that felt surprising and fresh in isolation, upon first …
11 Oct, 2022: [Link] Software Defined Talk Episode 380: No Free Lunches or Haircuts This week we discuss why Google abandons products, the 2022 State of DevOps Report and Elon’s texts. …
11 Oct, 2022: [Link] The X of Generation X “Once someone becomes an expert in obscure musical trends and styles, they won’t use pop …
4 Oct, 2022: ME! So many newsletters I'm pleased with the habit I've kept up with my newsletter - it's sent sometimes twice a week, at …
4 Oct, 2022: Guest on: Evolution of ITSM: Modernising ITGuest on: I was on The ITSM Crowd show today, it was fun! Claire Agutter about what "software is eating" the …
29 Sep, 2022: [Link] Matt on Tumblr — Why “Go Nuts, Show Nuts” Doesn’t Work in 2022 What you want to watch here is how a CEO does something rarely done: write like a real person, make …
29 Sep, 2022: [Link] The Data Center Is (Almost) Dead “Gartner predicts that by 2025, 80% of enterprises will shut down their traditional data …
8 Sep, 2022: [Link] Adobe’s Internal Developer Platform Journey and Lessons Good notes on Adobe’s platform engineering/platform as a product efforts. Moving from Mesos to …
5 Sep, 2022: [Link] The Only Good Notebook – WARREN ELLIS LTD My earliest professional comics work was all roughed out in crappy notebooks on the back table of a …
31 Aug, 2022: [Link] Business Dudes Need to Stop Talking Like This On thought-leadership language: “business-dude lorem ipsum.” Original source: Business …
28 Aug, 2022: Webinar: How to Measure Developer Productivity with Metrics and More Sep 13 - How to Measure Developer Productivity with Metrics and More Coming up soon I'll be …
25 Aug, 2022: [Link] Quiet quitting is a trend taking over TikTok and possibly your workplace - "pro-boss propaganda" The idea that you should only do the work you’re paid to do, and instead take all that extra …
25 Aug, 2022: [Link] Anthony Bourdain How to Travel - Anthony Bourdain on How to Fly Much advice around, of course, food. Turning away the airplane food is a good idea. On longer …
24 Aug, 2022: [Link] Sizing yourself “You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.” …
23 Aug, 2022: [Link] The Paris Review - Diary, 1999 “At that age, there is a kind of marriage between the logical act and the dramatic act. They …
23 Aug, 2022: [Link] "sex with a squid" For these conversations to be robust, children have to be interested enough to want to pick up the …
23 Aug, 2022: [Link] 100 Rules — Personal Philosophy You know, the usual list of mind-zingers, but always good to have more. Original source: 100 Rules — …
23 Aug, 2022: [Link] An Oral History of Tim Curry’s Escape to the One Place Uncorrupted by Capitalism “If something like that was in one of the main storylines, where you’re actually trying to pay …
5 Aug, 2022: [Link] Gartner Blog Network Product manage your kubernetes stack to make it more useful for your developers. Think of developers …
5 Aug, 2022: [Link] Gartner Blog Network Big sales deals require aligning all the different people at the buyer. With IT stuff, there’s …
4 Aug, 2022: Don’t let developer toil affect the business value of your apps Here'sa short write-up of the developer toil survey the Tanzu Labs people use to find ways to …
4 Aug, 2022: How to learn cloud native? Check out VMware Explore 2022 [www.youtube.com/watch](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3u31D00mIII) If you're doing anything with …
3 Aug, 2022: Do Less Than You Think https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tD5KXh36Svg&list=PLAdzTan_eSPRNuA52_34wh5VTBC-0Rz7U&index=4 …
2 Aug, 2022: Beware of Luxury, Jan Steen. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.
2 Aug, 2022: Der alte Bücherkasten, Friedrich Frotzel.
2 Aug, 2022: The CI/CD Bottleneck https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMyeHiUzH3E&list=PLAdzTan_eSPRNuA52_34wh5VTBC-0Rz7U&index=4 …
2 Aug, 2022: [Link] The Great Mental Models: General Thinking Concepts Handy thinking tools, e.g.: “Hanlon’s razor - When people do something bad, always assume …
2 Aug, 2022: Smoke Grandpa’s head Window shopping in Vienna.
1 Aug, 2022: Command lines and Kernels, Tanzu Application Platform 1.2 - Tanzu Talk Podcast We've restarted the Tanzu Talk podcast. Check out this week's episode: Tanzu Talk is back! Your new …
1 Aug, 2022: In the cozy library Bibliotheksinterieur by Wolfgang Schaukal.
1 Aug, 2022: The Platform Bottleneck https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9x069fTpdi0&list=PLAdzTan_eSPRNuA52_34wh5VTBC-0Rz7U&index=5 …
1 Aug, 2022: Review: Pringles Texas BBQ Sauce chips, review from two Texans. [youtube.com/shorts/fL...](https://youtube.com/shorts/fLIuLsWv-Bw?feature=share)
31 Jul, 2022: The Tech Debt Bottleneck https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qr1w4Dp5tSA&list=PLAdzTan_eSPRNuA52_34wh5VTBC-0Rz7U&index=6 …
31 Jul, 2022: Review: Lay’s Max Double Crunch Spare Ribs Flavor [youtube.com/shorts/Zg...](https://youtube.com/shorts/ZgVbidm0LmU?feature=share)
30 Jul, 2022: The Security Bottleneck https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIN2lVklWlc&list=PLAdzTan_eSPRNuA52_34wh5VTBC-0Rz7U&index=7 …
30 Jul, 2022: Man Eating Orange [youtube.com/shorts/-H...](https://youtube.com/shorts/-HJnFPVyVDc?feature=share)
29 Jul, 2022: The Compliance Bottleneck https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8s9E3LNe_k&list=PLAdzTan_eSPRNuA52_34wh5VTBC-0Rz7U&index=8 …
29 Jul, 2022: An imprecise definition of what “shift left” has come to mean The charitable guidance on what “shift left” means is: operations and security people working closer …
29 Jul, 2022: What’s the difference between solution marketing and product marketing in tech? [youtu.be/q7V_pa7Q6...](https://youtu.be/q7V_pa7Q6pc) It's easy to look at that "solution" tab and …
29 Jul, 2022: Travel, Winter loop I am in Vienna on a long weekend vacation with Kim. I picked this city to see the 12 Bruegels, so I …
28 Jul, 2022: Executives Must Transform Too for Digital Transformation Success [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VrpE992O68&list=PLAdzTan_eSPRNuA52_34wh5VTBC-0Rz7U&i …
27 Jul, 2022: Upcoming Webinar, August 4th: Why You Should Treat Your Platform as a Product Setting up your platform engineering team? Looking to support developers building and running apps …
27 Jul, 2022: What does Multi-Cloud Really Mean? [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Hugo8bHYv4&list=PLAdzTan_eSPRNuA52_34wh5VTBC-0Rz7U&i …
27 Jul, 2022: Improve DevX with Developer Toil Audits - New Paper I’ve been working on and waiting for this paper to get published. I co-authored it with …
27 Jul, 2022: [Link] Delta Airlines takes flight with Amazon Web Services Another public cloud move from a company that’s been holding onto private cloud for many …
27 Jul, 2022: [Link] Tech Workers Long Got What They Wanted. That’s Over. One reason for this change in bargaining power at startups: Capital isn’t flowing as freely. As …
27 Jul, 2022: [Link] All it takes is putting your phone down If you ever feel lonely, remember that somewhere someone is making millions of dollars off of a …
27 Jul, 2022: [Link] The Paris Review - E. E. Cummings and Krazy Kat - The Paris Review I am always trying to crack the code of what’s the point of any creative endeavor, and how …
27 Jul, 2022: [Link] Amazon to acquire One Medical’s subscription healthcare for $3.9 billion “We think health care is high on the list of experiences that need reinvention,” senior vice …
27 Jul, 2022: [Link] How Victoria’s Secret Created the American Fantasy Woman ‘Victoria’s Secret, Tyrnauer told me, became about “using sex to sell things you don’t …
27 Jul, 2022: [Link] Am I Normal? by Sarah Chaney review – it’s OK to be strange “According to the standards of 1928, I’m definitely not normal. But who among us is?” …
5 Jul, 2022: What is the difference between the Tanzu Application Service and the Tanzu Application Platform? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quoKStuwRVE&list=PLAdzTan_eSPRNuA52_34wh5VTBC-0Rz7U&index=3 …
13 Jun, 2022: Avoid Lean Product Management Shock When you’re doing lean product management, you often change the original requirements. Most …
12 Jun, 2022: What's the difference between "solution" and "product" tech marketing? [www.youtube.com/watch](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7V_pa7Q6pc) Yes, this is the "people want …
12 Jun, 2022: Is DevSecOps a Thing...? Or, What is DevSecOps? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27kCIHeZtTU&list=PLAdzTan_eSPRNuA52_34wh5VTBC-0Rz7U&index=2& …
11 Jun, 2022: Saturday Links AWS launches Mainframe Modernization service - “Gartner managing VP Mike Chuba said that many …
11 Jun, 2022: Platform Engineering Needs Marketing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beT4umjUAA4&list=PLAdzTan_eSPRNuA52_34wh5VTBC-0Rz7U&index=1 …
8 Jun, 2022: Office workers get little reward for returning to the office - an idle factory is taboo The Office Monsters Are Trying to Claw Their Way Back to 2019 I think the deal here is that …
3 Jun, 2022: Friday Links Van Gogh Museum to present extensive Gustav Klimt exhibition How Platform Engineering Helps Manage …
3 Jun, 2022: The 7Rs of Modernisation – a roadmap to app transformation My co-worker Marc Zottner and I have an article out on seven types of modernization. It’s …
3 Jun, 2022: One quick way to find developer toil [www.youtube.com/watch](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkrHwSPVxTo) Trying to improve how your …
3 Jun, 2022: Working Leftward - Make Sure You Have a Cloud First [www.youtube.com/watch](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pm0O7dpuctg) When You Build an Awesome App …
2 Jun, 2022: Latest Getting Better at Software Prattle I frequently give a talk on “what’s the deal with VMware and software development?” Here’s my …
31 May, 2022: Tuesday Links Simplified todo list management - “I started dividing my to-do list into 1) things I have to do, 2) …
31 May, 2022: What is DevSecOps? Part Two: Automating Verification and Guardrails https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9fVZU-e2Gk&list=PLAdzTan_eSPRNuA52_34wh5VTBC-0Rz7U&index=1 …
31 May, 2022: We don’t talk about PaaS…but we still want it You can start to sound too much like an out of touch old person if you start saying things like “oh, …
30 May, 2022: How far down does this mountain go? To get to a higher mountain, you have to first climb down the mountain you're on. So a profound …
30 May, 2022: What is DevSecOps? Part One: A Secure Software Supply Chain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fRYNaeGW_k&list=PLAdzTan_eSPRNuA52_34wh5VTBC-0Rz7U&index=3 …
30 May, 2022: How to write better copy for the while "digital transformation" urgency, "change or die" thing I love the narrative arc of saying that a problem technology was once the darling technology that …
28 May, 2022: Saturday Links, May 28, 2022 I’m in Istanbul to give a talk tomorrow at Java Days Istanbul, the kubernetes for developers one. …
27 May, 2022: The Toby Ferris Worldview Perhaps that is what these paintings are: the slow-decaying trace of a performance carried out in …
27 May, 2022: How to do fun and interesting executive dinners, round tables, etc. - online and in-person Here’s what I’ve learned in doing 30 (maybe more like 40?) executive events in person and online …
27 May, 2022: Trendz! Internal Developer Portals Here’s a write-up from myself and JT of a new trend in the kubernetes/DevOps/app dev world: …
26 May, 2022: Warm Smiles - a Fictional Case Study in Digital Transformation I’m back to working on the ongoing book(let) project, The Legacy Trap. Marc has been adding in …
25 May, 2022: Creating new appdev capabilities I like this point from a recent write-up of the US Army’s software development transformation: He …
25 May, 2022: Things that help companies get better at software When we standardized and enforced controls in the CI/CD pipeline the quality improved dramatically. …
24 May, 2022: Tuesday Links [howtoprofessionallysay.akashrajpurohit.com](https://howtoprofessionallysay.akashrajpurohit.com/) - …
24 May, 2022: May 31st, 2022: DevSecOps talk at IDC DevOps conference Next week, May 31st 2022, I’m giving a short talk on DevSecOps at an IDC conference. It’s based on …
24 May, 2022: Axe the intro paragraph analogy if you don't refer back to it Often, when you’re writing about tech stuff, you’ll make a reference to some mainstream culture …
23 May, 2022: Monday Links Getting Cloud Foundry on-top of kubernetes: Vision for CF on Kubernetes“More than 75 percent of …
23 May, 2022: Inspiration for developing a style and aesthetics “We hired you for what you know, not what you don’t know.” This was the best career advice I got …
23 May, 2022: How to Give a DevOpsDays Vendor Pitch When you sponsor DevOpsDays, you get a 1 to 2 minute pitch. I used to give a lot of these, …
22 May, 2022: What is DevSecOps? In this longer blog post, I go over how I’ve finally come to think about what DevSecOps is.A summary …
22 May, 2022: Napkins, Ice, Toilets, and Passports Allow me to indulge in some trans-Atlantic compare/contrast’ing. I was back in Texas and Chicago for …
21 May, 2022: A Good "Platform" Diagram I’m always looking for good diagrams of a “developer platform,” an “internal platform,” whatever you …
21 May, 2022: Make sure you’re actually doing CI/CD www.youtube.com/watch Here is the transcript: Can you release your software daily? Probably not. How …
21 May, 2022: Uses for Competitive Intelligence Jordi asked about the usefulness of competitive intelligence (at software/cloud vendors) in the …
20 May, 2022: Urgency is the best path to change [youtu.be/U6kTjxB32...](https://youtu.be/U6kTjxB32vg) Find more cute babies and nerd-talk in the …
15 May, 2022: My analysis of the State of Kubernetes 2022 survey I like that I’ve been slotted into the “get that guy to do a write-up of a survey” position at work. …
28 Mar, 2022: Mar 28, 2022 at 7:20 AM The notes go directly from here.
27 Feb, 2022: Submarine meeting Though not much of a drinker himself, Clinton expressed amusement over Yeltsin’s alcoholism and …
13 Feb, 2022: Lightboarding
13 Feb, 2022: Big Americans Pizza, from Dr. Oetker - How to Eat [youtube.com/watch](https://youtube.com/watch?v=pwBbA7g6ItY)
13 Feb, 2022: Asking “why” all the time is annoying https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXaXgZ0EzcE&list=PLAdzTan_eSPRNuA52_34wh5VTBC-0Rz7U&index=1 …
12 Aug, 2021: Tanzu Talk: where did the 'dev' in DevOps go? Was it ever there? [embed][www.youtube.com/watch](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_74Ck4CGFE[/embed]) I theorize about …
28 Jun, 2021: Reluctance to change - Notebook I've proposed an open spaces for DevOpsDays Amsterdam, 2021. The idea is: The DevOps community …
14 May, 2021: Recently
14 May, 2021: #log 2021-05-14 Since last time. From Napoleon to Nutella: The Birth of the Chocolate-Hazelnut Spread But, of …
2 May, 2021: #log 2021-05-02 How to Get Started with—Real—Travel Photography Photographing the butcher on the corner of the …
2 May, 2021: Recently
2 May, 2021: _Working Backwards_, recent book on how Amazon runs. Notes: central is thinking about product features, not business. The business funds the product, …
28 Apr, 2021: #log 2021-04-28 Creative “76% of employees employed by high-growth firms agree that their job requires them to be …
28 Apr, 2021: Recently in Amsterdam
28 Apr, 2021: The City, Susan Sontag From Reborn #CommonPlaceBook
28 Apr, 2021: healthcare tech reports notes Some reading I did for getting up to speed on healthcare tech. "Claims 2030: A talent strategy for …
26 Feb, 2021: Garbage Chairs of Amsterdam
23 Feb, 2021: After Minimalism The new lobbies in New York all seem to have the same granite walls, the same glass doors, and the …
20 Feb, 2021: Lemon and Egg Using Scan Thing, which I love for this kind of thing. Regular photo No flash. Flash.
20 Feb, 2021: Rando Photos
20 Feb, 2021: Evening stroll
18 Feb, 2021: Orange cord
14 Feb, 2021: More from Scan Thing
13 Feb, 2021: Molas
13 Feb, 2021: Selection
10 Feb, 2021: The tiny video toolkit People ask me how I do the tiny videos. I hope to do a screencast at some point, but in the …
10 Feb, 2021: The tiny video toolkit People ask me how I do the tiny videos. I hope to do a screencast at some point, but in the …
8 Feb, 2021: a strange gig for a press photographer. They are a weird breed, estranged in every way from …
8 Feb, 2021: But implementation is important too. How do you keep people on track without dampening their …
8 Feb, 2021: Organizations can benefit by focusing their data initiatives on clearly identified high-impact …
6 Feb, 2021: Saturday stroll
5 Feb, 2021: The process
5 Feb, 2021: Photojournalists a strange gig for a press photographer. They are a weird breed, estranged in every way from …
4 Feb, 2021: not the best hustler I am not the best hustler because I do not know myself as well as I want to, which leads to a series …
4 Feb, 2021: Fonts of Amsterdam
3 Feb, 2021: But not all businesses are making those investments. Only 36% of executives said they have the …
2 Feb, 2021: New Tanzu Talk video: people don’t want to change. This is a problem if you’re transforming how your …
2 Feb, 2021: 📷
1 Feb, 2021: Fonts of Amsterdam 📷
1 Feb, 2021: Fake sky from PS Camera, and original. 📷
1 Feb, 2021: Garbage Chairs of Amsterdam.
1 Feb, 2021: “Daily Active Shit-Heads” - excellent phrase. www.cnbc.com 🗃
1 Feb, 2021: Estimating the death of the IBM System i market At an even amount of 9 percent of the current base per year or 10,8000 customers, it would only take …
1 Feb, 2021: Don't make your corporate memo/deck perfect If everyone on a team (including the leaders) accepts that all first drafts are bad, that …
1 Feb, 2021: Don't make your corporate memo/deck perfect If everyone on a team (including the leaders) accepts that all first drafts are bad, that …
1 Feb, 2021: Variability is the enemy of sustainable enterprise architecture. But, we keep doing it cause …
1 Feb, 2021: News Serif Boy, that looks real nice. 🔗 News Serif
1 Feb, 2021: modernize large app portfolios by starting very small Oftentimes, we get clients who will say, ‘We need to assess those 10,000 applications that we know …
1 Feb, 2021: modernize large app portfolios by starting very small “Oftentimes, we get clients who will say, ‘We need to assess those 10,000 applications that we know …
1 Feb, 2021: Mindfulness from blood-sport Americans haven’t found a constructive was to discuss inequality and power distribution. We …
1 Feb, 2021: Joan Didion interview, 1978 - Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 71 …
31 Jan, 2021: 🎶open.spotify.com
31 Jan, 2021: Jack Kerouac interview, 1968 Yes, we’ve all been influenced by movies. Malcolm Cowley incidentally mentioned this many times. …
30 Jan, 2021: “Nearly indecipherable turgidity.” 10% Happier by Dan Harris 🗃
30 Jan, 2021: Relearning the value of complaining In my real life, I don’t complain. Even when I get cut. But complaining is bi-directionally …
30 Jan, 2021: Digital privacy is more about hiding secrets from your neighbors than from big corporations selling …
30 Jan, 2021: Garbage Chairs of Amsterdam
30 Jan, 2021: Amsterdam Walk
30 Jan, 2021: Colors of Amsterdam
30 Jan, 2021: Morning stroller-walk
30 Jan, 2021: In 2010, Tony Judt warned, not long before his death, that the traditional way of doing politics in …
30 Jan, 2021: Only a few of them are wrong. Of note: this doesn’t seem to cover the UK. 🔗 Things That Are …
30 Jan, 2021: 🔗 The Conundrum of “Conundrum”
29 Jan, 2021: Yes, it’s true. It’s fucking hot in Texas.
29 Jan, 2021: Getting more eyeballs for your boring-ass enterprise tech videos - analysis and LIFE HACKS from four months of long and tiny b2b videos by channel and numbers Looking at four months of numbers, here’s my theories of how to get more attention for my …
29 Jan, 2021: Even actors don’t exactly love the spotlight they move through, as your sister, the actor, has told …
29 Jan, 2021: Apple Watch owners are meant to feel like they’re walking right alongside the celebrity …
29 Jan, 2021: Everyone knows their problems, so jump to the solution If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe. Carl Sagan. In …
29 Jan, 2021: Pranksters, nihilists, asshole trolls, concern trolls etc. - those who are doing it for the luls, …
29 Jan, 2021: If it allows you to add a zaney thumbnail, it might be interesting. What I’ve found is that …
28 Jan, 2021: Australian snacks
28 Jan, 2021: This is like Wow in the World except for…finance news? overcast.fm
28 Jan, 2021: INTERVIEWER How many hours a day do you put in at the desk? BALLARD Two hours in the late morning, …
28 Jan, 2021: Extracting text, results from Scan Thing app: Euro is a +04p Spending More then You have bout What …
28 Jan, 2021: Slices Instagram, TikTok, Twitter - all these things - focus in just one thing, a photo, a tiny video, a …
28 Jan, 2021: websites An email newsletter is, indeed, a more personal space, and thus more precious in tone than the busy …
28 Jan, 2021: personalized ads are bullshit Totally cool, and all that. Now that I have to deal with GDPR pop ups on _every webpage _, I hope …
28 Jan, 2021: Pellet Ice Is the Good Ice 🔗
28 Jan, 2021: Rome, 2019.
28 Jan, 2021: 📷
27 Jan, 2021: As soon as you open the can it smells absolutely foul. It looks and smells like dog food. The meat …
27 Jan, 2021: In Brownsville, which abuts the Mexican town of Matamoros, Mejia grew up eating in a style typical …
27 Jan, 2021: This seems rather obvious, and a good idea, so I’m sure Twitter won’t do it. blog.twitter.com
27 Jan, 2021: They are sporting bureaucrats: diligent, methodical, unflappable, mildly sinister, like secretarial …
27 Jan, 2021: Found in Denmark beach house. 📷
26 Jan, 2021: The Unquiet Grave is a literary work by Cyril Connolly written in 1944 under the pseudonym …
26 Jan, 2021: Transparency - set up change experiments with metrics and measure effectiveness. Go over these with …
26 Jan, 2021: “a very pleasant and rewarding but nonetheless insane digression” Early Polyphony and the Failed …
26 Jan, 2021: “There was no need to actually have those tastes, provided, one talked enough about …
26 Jan, 2021: Michael Cote, digital transformation specialist at VMWare, highlighted some of the methods software …
26 Jan, 2021: He recognized that Americans valued emotional forthrightness in business and developed a particular …
26 Jan, 2021: More from the Scan Thing app 📷
26 Jan, 2021: Amsterdam, December, 2018. 📷
26 Jan, 2021: 🗃 “Bad note-taking has no immediate repercussions.” getAbstract summary of How to Take …
26 Jan, 2021: 🗃 “The long run can be really, really long.” Money
26 Jan, 2021: 📷 Zaney Thumbnail Production
26 Jan, 2021: Scan Thing app It takes pictures of “objects,” removing the background: Also, it says, pictures of text …
26 Jan, 2021: a mental bridge of energy I remember that George Eliot talked somewhere or other (in her letters? in an essay? perhaps in one …
26 Jan, 2021: 🗃 Such a sculpture might sound “deathly boring, more math problem than artwork” The Pitfalls and the …
25 Jan, 2021: His dream when he got out of the Army was to build a honky-tonk in Austin, his hometown, and he did …
25 Jan, 2021: colors of Amsterdam
25 Jan, 2021: This book, Money is written really well. The content, so far, is good too. a.co
25 Jan, 2021: 29% of those said they do not plan to resubscribe once the promo period expires; only 30% said they …
25 Jan, 2021: 🔗 What’s the “Uber” of the Civil Service?
25 Jan, 2021: Frankly, the shit jokes are the valuable bit, not the synced playback. 🔗 Weeknotes 102 - Novel …
25 Jan, 2021: I have an inkling of what that phrase “take care of yourself” means, finally, perhaps: …
25 Jan, 2021: good intentioned privacy noise I’m hoping this blocks all the GDPR nonsense. Fingers crossed. 🔗 Hush – Noiseless Browsing for …
25 Jan, 2021: 🔗 “Minor Feelings” and the Possibilities of Asian-American Identity, The New Yorker
25 Jan, 2021: Out past curfew Some good person-on-the-street photos and comments shout the COVID curfew in Amsterdam. Lots of dog …
25 Jan, 2021: standards The industry leader rarely want to adopt an existing standard that opens up the industry more for …
24 Jan, 2021: 📷 Delft-ish Colors
24 Jan, 2021: The negative event doesn’t cause as much stress as all that time anticipating the negative …
24 Jan, 2021: 📷 Wedding dresses in Tokyo
24 Jan, 2021: Wonder Bar, smiling guy www.instagram.com
24 Jan, 2021: Just slightly jaunty sign www.instagram.com
24 Jan, 2021: Reading it feels like being trapped inside a PowerPoint presentation about why billionaires are …
23 Jan, 2021: 📷 Colors
23 Jan, 2021: 🎥 Fish-driven advice from Jana Werner for execs changing their org from command and control with …
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23 Jan, 2021: 📷 Old book THE PASTORAL SYMPHONY never believed that I had much to take care of them. I have often …
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23 Jan, 2021: “The function of nothing here - of saying nothing - is that it’s a precursor to having …
23 Jan, 2021: 🔗 Shunning
22 Jan, 2021: 📷 Old urinals in Paris
22 Jan, 2021: 📷 Münich
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22 Jan, 2021: Amsterdam fonts 📷
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22 Jan, 2021: Ten Instagram creators, across content categories and following sizes, told Insider that since they …
22 Jan, 2021: it is perhaps important to distinguish, for a moment, between speculation and contemplation, where …
22 Jan, 2021: “The simple consequence of offending the wrong people.” 🔗 What Thomas Jefferson Could …
22 Jan, 2021: Online classes/lectures covering promise theory. 🔗 Promise theory overview
22 Jan, 2021: 📷 wikipedia
21 Jan, 2021: Good penguin www.instagram.com
21 Jan, 2021: Story wallpaper
21 Jan, 2021: 🎥 Doing DevSecOps in the US Federal government That’s an excerpt, defining what DevSecOps is from my recent Tanzu Talk episode, an interview …
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21 Jan, 2021: Try not to become a crabby family when your goals for you and your family (esp. children) are …
21 Jan, 2021: 📷 Amsterdam fonts, 1920's From this remastered, colorized film.
21 Jan, 2021: This was common form for thriller paperbacks at the time: “Yes, there’s murder in this one!” …
21 Jan, 2021: Maps and cameras are neglected app runtimes 🔗
21 Jan, 2021: Back alley canal 📷
21 Jan, 2021: Amsterdam fonts 📷
21 Jan, 2021: Garbage Chairs of Amsterdam 📷
21 Jan, 2021: Family kanban In general, you can’t apply your day-job skills and knowledge at home. Your family won’t …
21 Jan, 2021: Editing one-handed. 🎥📷
21 Jan, 2021: Flip-flops. 🎥
21 Jan, 2021: 🗃 “Facebook-brained viewers”
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21 Jan, 2021: Good location for a tiny video. 📷
20 Jan, 2021: Latest VMware Tanzu vision, where I work: Three Transformations Powering App Modernization
20 Jan, 2021: Really good: Is Substack the Media Future We Want?
20 Jan, 2021: looks delicious 🌭📷
19 Jan, 2021: 📷 Snow in Amsterdam
19 Jan, 2021: 📷 Garbage Chairs of Amsterdam
19 Jan, 2021: 🎥 They tell me Nutella is HUGE in Germany.
19 Jan, 2021: 🎨 An astounding blue: Arunachal Weaving
19 Jan, 2021: 🎨 Portrait of Luther Burbank
19 Jan, 2021: 🎨 artsandculture.google.com
19 Jan, 2021: Housing today : Hepler, Donald E : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
19 Jan, 2021: His Torino talk is an interesting NOT capitalist way to think of the point of living. Instead: …
19 Jan, 2021: Enterprise software marketing for tooth-paste: my commodity has the best ROI and TCO. Could I talk …
19 Jan, 2021: when a thing is not actually a thing For instance, this past week I saw a lot of people saying that sea shanties are popular online. …
19 Jan, 2021: Huai font
19 Jan, 2021: 180 days All of which is interesting because, as part of the Covid-19 relief and spending bill, …
18 Jan, 2021: That ANTICA one looks amazing. ilovetypography.com
18 Jan, 2021: A larger historic record than can be comprehended There is always some complaint that we’re loosing historic documentation (people write less …
18 Jan, 2021: For when you want to just throw a meal together the key ingredients are readily storable. Galangal, turmeric, and narrow red chiles all freeze very …
18 Jan, 2021: “This past year has made me put a lot more attention toward who cares about telling the truth.” He …
18 Jan, 2021: Demandgen metrics High-growth companies focus more on the customer lifecycle. Low-growth companies (those growing …
18 Jan, 2021: As far from the cult of productivity as you can get without trying too hard.
18 Jan, 2021: the need to have done or to be seen to have done has triumphed over the need merely to be doing …
17 Jan, 2021: Legendary Lands: Umberto Eco on the Greatest Maps of Imaginary Places and Why They Appeal to Us
17 Jan, 2021: 📚 When Mamaw stands up with the sun behind her you can see through the dress to her legs, and I am the …
17 Jan, 2021: 📚 To think through things, that is the still life painter’s work—and the poet’s. — Still Life with …
17 Jan, 2021: “I’m making a note here: never do this again.” overcast.fm/+HfJgr5lY…
17 Jan, 2021: As Told To: The Pelosi Staffer Keith Stern on the Breach of the Capitol - The New Yorker
17 Jan, 2021: "Bewitching" This dawning of conscience is as bewitching as it is belated. The grandees of the G.O.P. always knew …
17 Jan, 2021: 🍕Nutella on pizza youtu.be/RuWxq6Pmk…
17 Jan, 2021: 📷 Walt Disney’s plans
17 Jan, 2021: Top Apple Arcade Family Games apps.apple.com/us/story/…
17 Jan, 2021: Theory: Devs: exciting stuff that works together. CIOs: cheap, secure - boring - stuff that leads to …
17 Jan, 2021: a very pleasant and rewarding but nonetheless insane digression Early Polyphony and the Failed Life …
17 Jan, 2021: Essays from back in 2012 and further. The Junket | An online quarterly thejunket.org
8 Apr, 2019: No one likes the front row.
8 Apr, 2019: There’s sun here!
6 Apr, 2019: Learning to write is going really well.
5 Apr, 2019: The Instagram AI thinks I’m a lot cooler than I am.
5 Apr, 2019: This is a very large moth. The lady said it only lives for four or five days. Nature is weird.
4 Apr, 2019: This is some real @L2_Digital shit, right here, boss: aging miliniums with the digital CX in …
4 Apr, 2019: Standard Norse lunch, right?
4 Apr, 2019: No need to bow, I’m just waiting for my Uber. (But, thank you.)
2 Apr, 2019: Sometimes you book a place, and weeks earlier, in your hast to just get along with life and out of …
1 Apr, 2019: Spring in Amsterdam.
1 Apr, 2019: Typewriter menu.
1 Apr, 2019: Cormac zoomed in on the best part of this wall of flyers.
29 Mar, 2019: Friday nights are off the hook hur.
28 Mar, 2019: As my old pal Jay Valanju used to say: “this is what the Internet can do for us.”
28 Mar, 2019: The Michael Coté Production Function.
28 Mar, 2019: I mean. Yeah. Rock it, hombre.
27 Mar, 2019: “Stockholm’s cold but I’ve been told, I was born to endure this kind of weather.”
26 Mar, 2019: I would not want to have a beer with whoever Instagram thinks I am.
26 Mar, 2019: IoT…uh…like…thanks for the heads up?
26 Mar, 2019: Hot food!
26 Mar, 2019: Plans for cloud up here in Sweden.
26 Mar, 2019: All the great developer words and phrases.
26 Mar, 2019: Order of operations.
26 Mar, 2019: Back when…
24 Mar, 2019: Nothing but smiles on a sunny day.
23 Mar, 2019: I’m really hoping this is some absurdist art that’s on some next level shit. (You go to that Amazon …
23 Mar, 2019: New Power Ranger design.
22 Mar, 2019: The smells, tho.
22 Mar, 2019: They really dressed the part, there.
22 Mar, 2019: When breakfast is determined by what does not fit into your kid’s lunchbox.
19 Mar, 2019: Please, try my product.
18 Mar, 2019: Living my best life.
17 Mar, 2019: 10oz steak in London. Tastes like home.
15 Mar, 2019: 🎙️NGINX & F5, Elastic & Amazon This week’s Software Defined Talk podcast episode: NGINX gets bought, AWS and Elasticsearch …
15 Mar, 2019: One of the stranger hotel rooms I’ve been in: two stories! Nice, though.
15 Mar, 2019: 🗂 The Gig Economy is Actually Pretty Tiny - Nextgov According to the data, in May 2017, just 1 percent of workers were “gig economy workers whose tasks …
14 Mar, 2019: Ain’t fixin’ fuck with no MINOR film on this shit.
14 Mar, 2019: Fuckin’ shit up, per usual.
14 Mar, 2019: Up to no good.
14 Mar, 2019: I REGERTS NOTHING!
14 Mar, 2019: Just keep moving and don’t look the cabinet of hands in the eyes.
14 Mar, 2019: PayPal's IT catalog in 2014 The new structure would include nine hundred applications, thirty thousand end-user devices, …
13 Mar, 2019: Just over here buying some hand sanitizer, a bikini top, scissors, & dried sausage. What the …
12 Mar, 2019: 🗂 Money Stuff: $10,000 for reading the fine print The conventional approach to form contracts is (1) no one reads them but (2) the company pretends …
11 Mar, 2019: 🗂 Why the eight-hour workday doesn't work The ideal work-to-break ratio was 52 minutes of work, followed by 17 minutes of rest. …
10 Mar, 2019: I asked for “extra jalapeños.” But, you know, for the Netherlands: good team effort, y’all!
10 Mar, 2019: Finally, a hotel where you can open the windows all the way. Like ALL the way.
9 Mar, 2019: I got a selfie-stick. But it’s totally, actually, a tripod. Yup.
7 Mar, 2019: I found them tacos.
7 Mar, 2019: 🗂 The CIO's role in M www.ciodive.com/news/the-…
6 Mar, 2019: 🗂 Pie-charts and proactive app introductions Send in a mole: “Find one really smart engineering type in your IT organization and put them on a …
4 Mar, 2019: 🗂 What happened to OpenStack? So, you see, creating a viable, open source, hyperscale cloud software solution was against the …
4 Mar, 2019: 🗂 The New Bellwether For Enterprise IT IBM used to be the bellwether, then it was HPE for a while when it was just called Hewlett Packard, …
4 Mar, 2019: 🗂 Coaching CD change leaders Burke identified a few key architects who believed in the automated continuous delivery model and …
2 Mar, 2019: This is mushroom zoo soup. It is very good.
2 Mar, 2019: A story of a boy turning into a bug. It never occurred to me, but this is a perfect book for my son.
2 Mar, 2019: For a long time, I was a pack-rat.
1 Mar, 2019: Always really busy back then.
1 Mar, 2019: 🗂 Agile Q Seems like a budget luxury, but sure: In fact you have more time to focus on developing your team …
28 Feb, 2019: Gotta catch ‘em all.
28 Feb, 2019: 🗂 VMware’s ongoing reinvention Post server virtualization at VMware. www.networkworld.com/article/3…
28 Feb, 2019: 🗂 Geico Walks with Watson on AI Journey Replacing human agents with AI, matching it to the right sales workflow: “So we watched how this …
28 Feb, 2019: 🗂 VMware offers pure open-source Kubernetes, no chaser Following the usual, clear portfolio for open source infrastructure. www.zdnet.com/article/v…
27 Feb, 2019: 🗂 Duke Energy leases Tompkins Hall in Charlotte Meant to be more funky and collaborative than typical uptown office space, about 400 Duke Energy …
26 Feb, 2019: Yeah, sure. I’ll try some.
26 Feb, 2019: My book is out: Monolithic Transformation My book is finally out, a short 99 page write-up of tactics large organizations use to get better at …
26 Feb, 2019: 🗂 Execs think more optimistically about app dev practices than reality The same HBR survey found that 61 percent expect software release cycles to be three months or …
26 Feb, 2019: 🗂 How Vans Keeps Its Cool The company hopes that Vans will reach $5 billion in sales by 2023 — and it’s on track, …
25 Feb, 2019: Totes.
25 Feb, 2019: Seems like it’d be a good religion.
24 Feb, 2019: Cormac’s bay finds.
24 Feb, 2019: Happy Sunday, @mrchippy!
24 Feb, 2019: Gizur looked at him and spoke: ‘Well, is Gunnar at home?’ Thorgrim answered, ‘Find that out for …
24 Feb, 2019: Inside the hall, Gunnar woke up and said, ‘You’ve been cruelly used, my foster-child Sam, and it is …
24 Feb, 2019: Red Tide in Reykjavik.
24 Feb, 2019: They even have New England food here!
24 Feb, 2019: I bet these sell real well.
23 Feb, 2019: If you don’t finish your cod, you have to watch The Green Door.
23 Feb, 2019: A selection of books before some good fish soup. Really good soup.
23 Feb, 2019: Those fish sticks aren’t gonna just jump up on this boat themselves. So y’all should get to work. …
23 Feb, 2019: I should be writing things down more. Zero is definitely not enough.
23 Feb, 2019: Really, you only need one set of clothes. Maybe two for variety.
23 Feb, 2019: Sitting in a tour bus all day is strangely tiring.
21 Feb, 2019: Diggity dog!
21 Feb, 2019: My little booklet on fixing up your organization to do better software is out. Get a PDF free! …
21 Feb, 2019: 🗂 bol.com CIO interview The strength of our IT department is that IT is fully integrated in our organization. About 400 IT …
20 Feb, 2019: 🗂 Karl Lagerfeld dead “There is no secret to life,” Lagerfeld said. “The only secret is work. Get your act together, and …
20 Feb, 2019: Mais oui.
20 Feb, 2019: #nailedit
20 Feb, 2019: Lunch meat with a deeper meaning.
19 Feb, 2019: Local concerns.
19 Feb, 2019: Don’t fall in.
18 Feb, 2019: Photo by Alejandra.
17 Feb, 2019: This is a lot to take in as you’re peeing.
17 Feb, 2019: “But everywhere that I go, I got people I know”
16 Feb, 2019: Now me and @paulczar finally have something to talk about: how to properly cook horse.
16 Feb, 2019: Kids these days.
15 Feb, 2019: Cormac is 9 today!
14 Feb, 2019: Remind me to tell you my thoughts and theories on corn tortillas (esp. for breakfast tacos) one day.
14 Feb, 2019: Frozen banana.
14 Feb, 2019: This is a great view…oh…wut?
13 Feb, 2019: 🗂 Video: To make 1997’s Blade Runner, Westwood first had to create the universe The genre reached its peak in the early to mid 1990s, with some of the best-remembered LucasArts …
13 Feb, 2019: 🗂 The new CEO of Google Cloud explains the updated master plan for taking on Amazon Web Services “We’re going to specialize our sales team to talk to specific industries in the …
13 Feb, 2019: Someone was like, “betcha $20 you can’t get that Texan to come here.”
12 Feb, 2019: This begs the question: what are the irregular ones like?
12 Feb, 2019: Keepin’ it @bob_brindley in Saint Louis.
12 Feb, 2019: Times like this, I remember my motto: a taco is still a taco.
11 Feb, 2019: There’s a tiny museum in Schiphol.
11 Feb, 2019: Nice!
9 Feb, 2019: 🗂 Digital Transformation, IT, and the Rest of the Company - The New Stack thenewstack.io/digital-t…
9 Feb, 2019: Just tryin keep it Tejas over hur, y’all.
9 Feb, 2019: Your words, not mine!!
8 Feb, 2019: /cc: @mrchippy.
6 Feb, 2019: 🗂 Imposter Syndrome and Finding Your Flow I have wasted so much time and energy stalling on a task because I was questioning myself [wasting] …
4 Feb, 2019: I think it could last well into their 50s, actually.
2 Feb, 2019: Same.
1 Feb, 2019: One More.
1 Feb, 2019: This one goes out to @sarahlgpatterson.
1 Feb, 2019: 🗂 Kubernetes Culture Change Thus we’ve seen a bunch of Kubernetes services spring up, run by the same people who brought …
1 Feb, 2019: Duke Energy’s innovation lab booklet.
31 Jan, 2019: My mother was very excited about the three pennies she found yesterday.
31 Jan, 2019: As you know, I enjoy a side of tacos with my salsa.
30 Jan, 2019: Beef rib to the floor, tho!
30 Jan, 2019: Oh, you think the salsa is your ally, you merely adopted eating salsa. I was born in it, molded by …
29 Jan, 2019: 🗂 Software Chasms with Martin Casado The unending chasm describes a mode in which an infrastructure company must function as both a …
28 Jan, 2019: Now that’s an afternoon conference snack.
28 Jan, 2019: Tacos and dirty water for breakfast. WHAT A COUNTRY!
28 Jan, 2019: Pokémon time.
27 Jan, 2019: This is some straight up, unsweetened ice tea that tastes terrible. God, how I love it! Imma swim in …
27 Jan, 2019: I like this broken plate is a cool thing to frame deal, here.
27 Jan, 2019: 🗂 Speak up more If you’re authentic and fully invested in making an impact while enhancing the experience of those …
26 Jan, 2019: 🗂 Evidence-Based Management Guide It’s all about that Unrealized Value. www.infoq.com/articles/…
26 Jan, 2019: 🗂 “Style is a way to say who you are without having to speak.” my company is based in Oakland. This is like being based in San Francisco, but with fewer …
26 Jan, 2019: 🗂 The Art of Booth This may seem like overthinking, but the money, time, and opportunity cost that a booth represents …
26 Jan, 2019: 🗂 The digital winter turns apocalyptic News isn’t a growth business, but a business nonetheless. …
25 Jan, 2019: 🗂 Kafka at Audi, IoT When Audi wanted to build a system to manage the on-board telematics data in its vehicles, it turned …
25 Jan, 2019: 🗂 Focusing on Business Outcomes at Barclays: Overcoming the "Urgency Paradox" Spreading lean software in an enterprise: Get stakeholders to think in terms of the end-to-end …
25 Jan, 2019: 🗂 Oracle's priorities for 2019? Repeat this handy mantra: Applications! Automation! Integration! Big Red, which has been struggling to gain foothold in the cloud market, is looking to make …
24 Jan, 2019: Robot dogs!
24 Jan, 2019: 🗂 Microsoft signs cloud deal with Albertsons Cleaning up that grocery store game. www.cnbc.com/2019/01/2…
24 Jan, 2019: In case you didn’t get enough of that hotel room coffee. (And to think that the Portuguese barista …
23 Jan, 2019: I got to present with my old pal @mattwbaker today!
23 Jan, 2019: 🗂 Achieving Multi-Cloud Flexibility Matt Baker’s concise history and path to the “multi-cloud” thought-technology: “The definition and …
23 Jan, 2019: 🗂 Switching Costs and Lock-In “Lock-in” is about switching costs (a Simon Phipps put it long ago, “the freedom to leave”) and can …
23 Jan, 2019: 🗂 I went to a Skookum Tech Talk and learned how Duke Energy is staying on top of all things tech – and what that means for your energy services Doing software better at the south east’s largest power company. …
23 Jan, 2019: 🗂 What startups should know about ITIL® ITIL came from a very different IT setup compared to that of today’s startups. IT had a supporting, …
23 Jan, 2019: 🗂 Why Do We Need Architectural Diagrams? In practice, most stakeholders are not interested in detailed diagrams, but rather in one or two …
23 Jan, 2019: 🗂 When is it Time to Say Goodbye to Accenture, Deloitte, IBM or KPMG? Short plan for getting rid of outsources. upperedge.com/system-in…
23 Jan, 2019: Canals owning the birds.
23 Jan, 2019: 🗂 Multiple personality enterprise data There is also the cost of different people thinking about data differently because they are working …
22 Jan, 2019: Bounce them meeting invites, y’all, cause I’m fixin' get serious lit, Heinz stee!
21 Jan, 2019: 🗂 'The goal is to automate us': welcome to the age of surveillance capitalism Better predicting, targeting, and driving people to buy shit: While the general modus operandi of …
21 Jan, 2019: 🗂 The U.S. Department of Defense on How To Detect ‘Agile BS’ Tips on finding good agile teams in large organizations: Are teams delivering working software to …
21 Jan, 2019: 🗂 Insiders say that Google's new cloud boss is likely to make some very large acquisitions Financial analysis of in wild with bizarre predictions. It’s hard to see synergies worth paying for …
21 Jan, 2019: 🗂 The short history of global living conditions and why it matters that we know it Things are getting much better. ourworldindata.org/a-history…
20 Jan, 2019: Deal with it.
19 Jan, 2019: I don’t know what this is, but whatever is going on here, they got this shit on lock-down.
19 Jan, 2019: …and then I says, I says, “Cormac, did you know I was a programmer for 10 years? Maybe I can …
19 Jan, 2019: 🗂 Keeping the Lines Open Tools and practices for remote agile stuff. builttoadapt.io/tk-65faab…
19 Jan, 2019: 🗂 Q When we create, we put forward a case for how we should interact with tech in future, and by …
19 Jan, 2019: 🗂 Open Source, Enterprise Software, and Free Lumber Please believe me when I say that I totally agree with Holger’s assertion that this process produces …
17 Jan, 2019: 🗂 Some high-profile wins at Microsoft of late, in retail The customer win is another example of retailers choosing cloud vendors that are not Amazon. …
17 Jan, 2019: 🗂 Knative Update Shows It’s Serious About Serverless www.sdxcentral.com/articles/…
16 Jan, 2019: 🗂 AWS For Everyone: New clues emerge about Amazon's secretive low-code/no-code project Earlier reports indicated that AWS has for some time been working on a cloud service that would …
15 Jan, 2019: 🗂 Production Guideline Checklists of things to check before deploying. …
15 Jan, 2019: 🗂 PKS - a Painkiller for Kubernetes The list of pains: One cluster is not enough Developers want clusters close to them, for low latency …
15 Jan, 2019: 🗂 Why Is Storage On Kubernetes Is So Hard? Storage! softwareengineeringdaily.com/2019/01/1…
15 Jan, 2019: 🗂 AWS, MongoDB, and the Economic Realities of Open Source This leaves MongoDB Inc. not unlike the record companies after the advent of downloads: what they …
14 Jan, 2019: 🗂 ‘Inbox infinity’: is ignoring all your emails the secret to a happy 2019? Rather than trying to deal with every single email, let them pile up, and allow the digital tide to …
14 Jan, 2019: 🗂 Only the good meetings Finding a cadence upon which to work as an engineer can be difficult. As engineers are generally …
14 Jan, 2019: 🗂 Fiction vs. Nonfiction The only difference is that with nonfiction, every fact in the book must refer to a document or a …
13 Jan, 2019: Amsterdamer problems.
12 Jan, 2019: 🗂 Why so many people who need the government hate it I’ve come to the conclusion that relationships are more important. And I think organizations need …
12 Jan, 2019: 🗂 The Rise and Demise of RSS Unfortunately, syndication on the modern web still only happens through one of a very small number …
12 Jan, 2019: 🗂 Culture We need to work with each other. To do that, we need to trust each other. The Air Force needs to …
11 Jan, 2019: 🗂 Kromhout Kubernetes Tour Why you’d use it, what it does, the parts, and the additional stuff you’ll need. …
10 Jan, 2019: Get in there and figure your shit out, champ. Then come give these God damned slides.
10 Jan, 2019: 🗂 Steeltoe: Modernize .Net Apps for a Microservices Architecture Microservices for .Net. thenewstack.io/steeltoe-…
9 Jan, 2019: Le cloud.
9 Jan, 2019: Typical Parisian street style.
9 Jan, 2019: I don’t know what this was, but I ate it.
9 Jan, 2019: 🗂 Simplifying kubernetes use As a scheduler of containers, Kubernetes does a pretty good job. If you keep it focused on that key …
8 Jan, 2019: 🗂 Contemporary Views on Serverless and Implications It either means not having to worry about managing your middleware stack and/or a trigger-driven …
8 Jan, 2019: 🗂 community, you keep using that word Selling something for more than the cost is the only business model ever. Everything else is …
8 Jan, 2019: 🗂 Is this the future of retail? We checked out the new high-tech store from Microsoft and Kroger You use an in-store device or you phone to scan items to buy: The speed is most visible when a …
7 Jan, 2019: 🗂 Rebecca Kukla on Moving through and Responding to the World Great philosophy discussion. overcast.fm PbpJYEvbA
7 Jan, 2019: 🗂 A Pivotal Director, RedMonk Analyst Discuss the State of Open Source in 2018 by The New Stack Analysts I was on a end-of-year podcast on open source, kubernetes, and vendor sports: It would have been …
7 Jan, 2019: 🗂 Pivotal Cloud Foundry 2.4 Boosts Security With Compliance Scanner Two big features: So how does zero downtime actually work in production? Seroter explained that, …
6 Jan, 2019: 🗂 Avoiding worrying What you see and how you perceive yourself is not really how anybody else sees you. There are people …
6 Jan, 2019: 🗂 State of the World 2019, Bruce Sterling The markets are waiting for the markets to stop being global markets. …
5 Jan, 2019: Stuntin' like my daddy.
3 Jan, 2019: 🗂 The future of Kubernetes is Virtual Machines Multi-tenancy ain’t easy: The Kubernetes cluster itself becomes the line of “Hard Tenanacy”. This …
3 Jan, 2019: 🗂 DBS banks on data to know what customers want before they themselves know DBS built its API platform on Pivotal Cloud Foundry, which enabled it to upgrade or update the …
2 Jan, 2019: 🗂 Keep kubernetes clusters small and dumb Rule #2: take away the problem of scale from infrastructure, push it back on the apps — things run …
2 Jan, 2019: 🗂 The Non-Compete Software Movement If I want to grab a piece of software and build a business on top of it through my own labor, I …
1 Jan, 2019: This is exactly the kind of thing I spent all that money on this wondrous wrist widget for. (“Greens …
1 Jan, 2019: “Come on daddy. I know you want to take a picture of this. Come on, take a picture.”
31 Dec, 2018: Not happy about fireworks.
28 Dec, 2018: 🗂 Life on the Road With Susan Orlean How do you pass the time on a flight? Sometimes I’ll do tasks that are usually so tedious that I …
25 Dec, 2018: This sums up our relationship.
25 Dec, 2018: I’m fixin’ be on that @paulczar shit, y’all.
24 Dec, 2018: Is that box car empty? Who wants some hobo chili? Can you spare a dime, brother? Help me start this …
24 Dec, 2018: 🗂 Pairing at DBS There are various mechanisms and methods that we use to transform the skills of our incumbents. …
23 Dec, 2018: 🗂 What’s next for 2019? Influencer marketing trends Technology is not favoured on Instagram, accounting for just one percent of posts. A quarter of all …
23 Dec, 2018: 🗂 Two-thirds of federal email is now in the cloud Quite a few departments have entirely moved their email to the cloud: Transportation, [HUD], …
22 Dec, 2018: 🗂 A lot of effort went into making this effortless When Pablo Picasso was an old man, he was sitting in a café in Spain, doodling on a used napkin. He …
21 Dec, 2018: Smart Crowd! (Better than a dumb crowd?)
21 Dec, 2018: 🗂 Kubernetes, what it’s for The reason that Kubernetes is successful is because people look at it and they don’t understand why …
21 Dec, 2018: 🗂 Learning the business from The Business “The worse domain expert is the one whose expertise was built for the intricacies of existing …
20 Dec, 2018: Watch out for twins.
19 Dec, 2018: Mexican bagel burger.
19 Dec, 2018: 🗂 What's wrong with Huawei, and why are countries banning the Chinese telecommunications firm? The focus of many security agencies and countries on Huawei’s involvement in 5G systems raises the …
19 Dec, 2018: 🗂 Does terrorism work? We studied 90 groups to get the answer We found that only six of the 45 terror groups – that’s 13.3 percent – accomplished their broader …
19 Dec, 2018: 🗂 Why Ketchup in Mexico Tastes So Good Take a look at the fare available in the typical convenience store. It should be called the corn …
19 Dec, 2018: Beardbros.
18 Dec, 2018: We all want that British Lifestyle.
18 Dec, 2018: 🗂 Projects versus products, dependency avoidance ed. The project/product distinction is an important one for many reasons, so let’s touch on that here …
18 Dec, 2018: Everything has to start somewhere.
18 Dec, 2018: 🗂 Meanwhile, does tumblr just burn cash? The reality is that Tumblr is almost certainly a big money loser: the app was earning about $13 …
18 Dec, 2018: 🗂 Cloud Comfort Level is Growing, Survey Finds Cloud Foundry Foundation reported that more than 50 percent of companies it surveyed are developing …
18 Dec, 2018: 🗂 Synergies, industrial example Berg said that over the past two years, under the ownership of GE, ServiceMax has been able to get …
18 Dec, 2018: 🗂 You wait for one IT giant to show up with its sales figures, then two come at once: Red Hat, Oracle Still swinging: “Jeff Bezos gave the command, ‘I want to get off the Oracle …
18 Dec, 2018: 🗂 COTS kills container cornucopia Where we are today, we have quite a bit of package software that we customize. And so we are paying …
16 Dec, 2018: “My vision is pimpin', you already know though,” but, like, NEXT LEVEL.
16 Dec, 2018: There it is.
15 Dec, 2018: My kids are on that Esther Dyson shit.
13 Dec, 2018: The last SpringOne Tour if the year, day 2.
13 Dec, 2018: Canada’s favorite!
13 Dec, 2018: It gets cold up here.
13 Dec, 2018: Toronto burrito.
13 Dec, 2018: 🗂 Congress Votes For Better Government Websites, Digital Services Make government apps that are actually useful on purpose: “Are designed around user needs with …
13 Dec, 2018: 🗂 Singapore Airlines to innovate at Silicon Valley startup speed with Pivotal “Singapore Airlines (SIA) has collaborated with Pivotal Software to deliver what the two …
12 Dec, 2018: Tea is funny.
12 Dec, 2018: I miss those dancing gifs for sub-Prime mortgages, but I’ll take this for now.
12 Dec, 2018: Can’t even.
12 Dec, 2018: Co-branding!
12 Dec, 2018: Practicing being Dutch.
12 Dec, 2018: Cormac is finding a new style!
12 Dec, 2018: I’m not familiar with this bizarre weather stuff. God has dandruff?
11 Dec, 2018: Working on some texmextafel concepts.
11 Dec, 2018: VMware uses NSX for Istio The microservice architecture, which breaks complex applications into sets of single-purpose …
10 Dec, 2018: Which one are you?
9 Dec, 2018: I held my own in Exploding Kittens.
8 Dec, 2018: Only approved for use by Bane.
8 Dec, 2018: At first, it seems narrowly focused. But then you realize it’s, basically, instructions for life.
8 Dec, 2018: The results were good enough.
8 Dec, 2018: Co-worker.
7 Dec, 2018: 🗂 Where there's cake, there's success I’m always trying to find a reference to Linda Rising’s cake law. Here it is! …
7 Dec, 2018: Oh, shit, dog! The programmers are moving in!
5 Dec, 2018: “Almost”? That’s some real cracker-jack copy right there, brother.
5 Dec, 2018: Totally normal behavior in the Netherlands.
5 Dec, 2018: In any organisation that’s been around for a while, ways of doing things build up and often …
4 Dec, 2018: 🗂 Don’t forget people “When you invest in education and health care and benefits for working Americans, it pays dividends …
4 Dec, 2018: 🗂 The Economists books of the year, 2018 That’s a lot of books, fiction even. www.economist.com/books-and…
3 Dec, 2018: Forest hideout Rough time of year for a lot of people. Lonely time, sometimes. I know all about loneliness, believe …
2 Dec, 2018: 🗂 the philosopher of perhaps The form of Nietzsche’s work was having a great and immediate impact on the arts of the 1890s also. …
2 Dec, 2018: Problems in Christmas land.
1 Dec, 2018: A textbook case of "pretty good" Strindberg himself was not at the greatest moment of mental stability in his life. He had no money, …
30 Nov, 2018: We’ve been getting some fine @softwaredefinedtalk reviews of late. Thanks!
30 Nov, 2018: “Don’t bother me, I’m workin’”
30 Nov, 2018: Amsterdam is full of these. There’s three well cared for ones in my neighborhood alone.
30 Nov, 2018: One day I should get me one of these. One that smells like oil and gasoline all the time.
29 Nov, 2018: I’m still not clear what this cooking instrument is, but it’s probably fine.
29 Nov, 2018: 🗂 Virtualization software company Parallels reportedly to be acquired by Canada’s Corel Both companies are “time was” status. Clearly, just a VC roll-up of cash cows: Corel, once publicly …
29 Nov, 2018: Transparency can contribute to heartless management Everyone likes dashboards everywhere, but a bad manager (knowingly or accidentally can use that …
27 Nov, 2018: 🗂 AWS’s Snowball Edge A private cloud box from Amazon: The Snowball Edge Compute Optimized with GPU includes an on-board …
27 Nov, 2018: 🗂 Google's new cloud chief has a culture clash ahead of him after 22 years at Oracle But when it comes to the big storage and core computing contracts, numerous industry experts, …
27 Nov, 2018: 🗂 Applying lean in a hospital It was also recognized that many of the failures of change programs in industry had resulted from …
26 Nov, 2018: The world is on routines While I’m just here waiting Got no plans, got no schedule Don’t …
26 Nov, 2018: 🗂 How Air France - KLM designed its PaaS Cloud Foundry “it was not a question of replacing our experts but of increasing the skills of the …
26 Nov, 2018: The janitor strategy Charge to clean up a mess you made (or someone else if you don’t have the funds to create the …
26 Nov, 2018: 🗂 Predictablity defines relationships A relationship is a set of mutual expectations about each other’s future behavior based on past …
24 Nov, 2018: “If this is gonna be that kind of party…”
20 Nov, 2018: The secret is coffee.
20 Nov, 2018: 🗂 “don't nobody really know me” In the week following the meeting in St. Peter’s, Lou became ever more fascinated by Nietzsche. She …
20 Nov, 2018: All your dongles are belong to us.
20 Nov, 2018: Looking for that ever elusive Johnny Leadgen.
20 Nov, 2018: 🗂 Is CX the new killer app for ERP vendors? I seriously doubt it All these analytics are nonsense if you don’t actually act on them, especially when it comes to …
20 Nov, 2018: 🗂 HSBC chief architect: Why machine learning is accelerating cloud adoption If you build it, you own it, big data ed.: “We got some value out of that but to be honest we found …
20 Nov, 2018: 🗂 OpenStack 2018: Mark Shuttleworth chats to The Reg about 10-year support plans, Linus Torvalds and Russian rockets While he would obviously be very happy to welcome new customers to the Canonical fold, he points …
20 Nov, 2018: 🗂 Getting people to ask questions and challenge lectures Misunderstanding the rules and norms surrounding the issue of authority is probably the most common …
20 Nov, 2018: 🗂 Survival anxiety, learning anxiety The change process always begins with some disconfirmation, some recognition on the part of leaders …
19 Nov, 2018: Who put digital transformation in my DevOps? A recording of the 90 minute, “lecture” version of my standard talk on doing software …
18 Nov, 2018: 🗂 Art that appears effortless is best As Mark Pilgrim used to footer, “a lot of effort went into making this effortless”: On …
17 Nov, 2018: 🗂 Greene steps down as Google Cloud CEO, to be replaced by Thomas Kurian “We have moved Google Cloud from having only two significant customers and a collection of …
17 Nov, 2018: 📹 Rethinking enterprise architecture for DevOps, agile, & cloud native organizations Latest version of my talk on the usefulness of enterprise architecture in all this DevOps stuff.
17 Nov, 2018: 📚 OG fanfic, Nietzsche ed. In the year 2000, some fifty years after its first publication in 1951, and exactly a century after …
16 Nov, 2018: Talking about enterprise architecture. Something I know little about. From here: …
16 Nov, 2018: 🗂 Lack of trust breeds bureaucracy “When DEC was small a hardware engineer could go to the software department and ask whether …
16 Nov, 2018: 🎙️ Existing investments & business innovation fuel Software Defined Talk #155: Hybrid cloud and kubernetes with Cisco, and the latest beard analysis …
15 Nov, 2018: 🗂 The computational legacy is Oracle's cloud opportunity today The company said it was saving most of its cloud-native announcements for KubeCon in December, but …
15 Nov, 2018: When you eat with Taco Bob, order extra pickles.
15 Nov, 2018: How many clowns do you think you can fit on that seat?
15 Nov, 2018: 🗂 Salesforce makes undisclosed “strategic investment” in Docker, companies will cross-sell MuleSoft and Docker Enterprise As part of the new relationship between the companies, Docker and Salesforce’s recently acquired …
15 Nov, 2018: 🗂 Mission capability delivered at startup speed More coverage of the US Air Force going all in on digital XP, lean design, and cloud native to …
15 Nov, 2018: Finally, I can get my drank on.
15 Nov, 2018: 🗂 Seeking stasis “One basic assumption of adult learning is that we are at all times in a state of what has …
14 Nov, 2018: I went to the wrong room and now I know about the people who contribute to Glassfish.
14 Nov, 2018: OpenStack Expands With New Projects, Canonical’s CEO Is Not Thril Round up of new projects in OpenStack land. www.sdxcentral.com/articles/…
14 Nov, 2018: Rancher Labs Ropes Tencent, Alibaba, Huawei Support Into Containe “The market has really heated up this year, and clearly that is what’s driving the acquisitions,” …
14 Nov, 2018: Waving goodbye to Wall Street the trend has accelerated in just the past half-decade as gigantic pools of private capital have, …
14 Nov, 2018: Enterprises to spend almost $2 trillion on digital transformation by 2022 “Industry spending on DX technologies is being driven by core innovation accelerator technologies …
14 Nov, 2018: Singapore Airlines employees urged to innovate, fail without fear There needs to be a place where you can fail and there’s no implication to your career. [The …
13 Nov, 2018: 🗂 Education The philosopher argues for a return to education for its own sake and for the sake of upholding the …
13 Nov, 2018: I’m no airport restaurant expert, but I think this one nailed it.
13 Nov, 2018: Finally back home!
12 Nov, 2018: They printed out my PDF! Things are gonna start happening to me now! (Also, I signed some. Collect …
12 Nov, 2018: This dish is called “the I3”: Insert Imodium Instantly.
12 Nov, 2018: The people running SpringOne Tour Singapore.
12 Nov, 2018: Finally! I can now live out my dreams to cosplay an Overlooker! Thanks QVCGram!
12 Nov, 2018: It me!
11 Nov, 2018: Fixed vs. Growth: The Two Basic Mindsets That Shape Our Lives What it all comes down to is that a mindset is an interpretative process that tells us what is going …
11 Nov, 2018: A colleague who wished to remain anonymous sent this along to me, describing it as “The Mona Lisa of …
11 Nov, 2018: 🗂 Enterprise architecture as a core asset As the company decides on its objectives and turns them into a definition of business value, the CIO …
10 Nov, 2018: 🗂 Gaming the system Prior to his arrival, Norwest branches had sales volumes objectives and a host of sales measurement …
10 Nov, 2018: 🗂 Innovation violates norms discontinuous innovation during periods of ferment emerges from entrepreneurial, skunk-works types …
9 Nov, 2018: Guys! I found flavor!
9 Nov, 2018: How to toilet.
9 Nov, 2018: If you were a Concur auditor, what would you even do with this?
9 Nov, 2018: Hands down, my favorite type of monster.
9 Nov, 2018: The Raffles-era port of Singapore, I’m told.
8 Nov, 2018: Filming at the airport.
8 Nov, 2018: Who wouldn’t want to brush their teeth right next to the toilet of a 6 hour flight? Freshin’ up, …
8 Nov, 2018: Storm all the events.
8 Nov, 2018: If this ain’t one of the best “this could be you and me but you playin’” I don’t rightly know what …
8 Nov, 2018: The cure for your distributes services indigestion.
7 Nov, 2018: Japan. Check, check, beer, check, ramen, dog dicks, fried dumplings…what…hold on. What …
7 Nov, 2018: NOPE!
7 Nov, 2018: This one comes out hot.
6 Nov, 2018: I’m assuming that Wonda is one of the lesser know Marvel Universe countries.
6 Nov, 2018: I’ve been working on a collection of my The Register columns and a few other “blog …
6 Nov, 2018: Rare picture of @starbuxman man without his thumbs up.
6 Nov, 2018: It’s getting hard to distinguish these Instagram products from real things or jokes.
6 Nov, 2018: Writing addiction “I support your taking up tennis if you really want to play tennis,” he said. “But if you want to …
5 Nov, 2018: It’s Not a Digital Transformation Without a Digital Culture Signaling change with symbolic acts that embody the new culture is a good way to activate leadership …
4 Nov, 2018: Stayed at the wrong place, I guess.
4 Nov, 2018: Deloitte is all over that biometric shit. And THE DIGITAL, of course.
4 Nov, 2018: Single slice, no pork.
4 Nov, 2018: It Mr Brown, but boss enough for me.
3 Nov, 2018: The DevOps are everywhere.
3 Nov, 2018: The Eye of Sauron is watching you pee.
3 Nov, 2018: Welcome to the cloud. I hope you brought a napkin.
3 Nov, 2018: It’s a living!
3 Nov, 2018: Better get some UBI. These robots be on it.
2 Nov, 2018: Nice stuff on the plane over.
1 Nov, 2018: Big Blue Puts on a Red Hat: IBM Acquires Red Hat While many organizations have extensive on and off premise infrastructure investments, comparatively …
1 Nov, 2018: All your base are belong to us Mr. Rico has led, managed, and participated in over 15 SW-CMM® Level 2, 3, 4, and 5 initiatives for …
31 Oct, 2018: This probably seemed like a really good idea after those extra bumps.
31 Oct, 2018: For those who want that Boston preppy look?
31 Oct, 2018: Here at @newrelic’s #FutureStack Amsterdam today. This hotel-venue is rad.
31 Oct, 2018: Google Cloud Revenue When asked about Google’s on-premises strategy, Pichai said the company is “thoughtfully looking at …
31 Oct, 2018: Profile of XP and the workday at Pivotal, in German [E]very day starts with a shared breakfast. The buffet offers everything the empty stomach needs: …
30 Oct, 2018: Canned meat has its place.
30 Oct, 2018: Shoulda bought some.
29 Oct, 2018: Alejandra’s fall break assignment is to find patterns.
25 Oct, 2018: The State of Agile Software in 2018 The third thing that I want to stress is the importance of getting rid of software projects as a …
25 Oct, 2018: Were you at Woodstock?
25 Oct, 2018: This Parisian is taking cycling seriously.
25 Oct, 2018: Amazon move off Oracle caused Prime Day outage in warehouse The outage, which lasted for hours on Prime Day, resulted in over 15,000 delayed packages and …
25 Oct, 2018: Oracle OpenWorld 2018 - making the cloud friendly for enterprises that distrust cloud Good summary and analysis. diginomica.com/2018/10/2…
24 Oct, 2018: SOFTWARE!
24 Oct, 2018: Someone probably thought this was helpful evolution of the thermostat. Bless their hearts.
24 Oct, 2018: Lime scooters in Madrid.
24 Oct, 2018: Software was important, but civics hacking is the real enabler Techmeme’s summary is all you need to read: Three recent books argue that big tech became powerful …
24 Oct, 2018: A novel concept in hotel breakfasts.
23 Oct, 2018: Cyber Airmen fuel innovation Any problems discovered in the software can be more easily corrected, a small failure being …
23 Oct, 2018: When Culture Doesn’t Translate Unfortunately, the Thai manager told me, his U.S. colleagues usually didn’t send the agenda until an …
23 Oct, 2018: It was delicious. Also, if course, plenty of jamón. They served the jamón slightly warmed up, which …
23 Oct, 2018: Now that’s a sink.
23 Oct, 2018: 2018 Day One Recap: The “Project To Product” Movement Is In Full Swing It doesn’t matter if DevOps has accelerated development. You need to accelerate the entire lead …
22 Oct, 2018: They can’t get enough of these canned weeniers in Europe.
22 Oct, 2018: I’m pretty poor at Spanish, but I don’t think that’s to be taken literally.
22 Oct, 2018: If I smoked, I’d immediately switch the this brand. There was also a grape flavored one, which I’d, …
22 Oct, 2018: The colors on this airport are awesome.
22 Oct, 2018: Lots to think about.
22 Oct, 2018: This hotel room is buck-wild.
20 Oct, 2018: Hmmm. Wonder what the bathroom code is…
20 Oct, 2018: That’s one way to eat healthier.
20 Oct, 2018: The Halo Effect: Sears Ed. UNTIL 1991, SEARS WAS THE LARGEST RETAILER IN the United States with more than 500,000 employees. By …
19 Oct, 2018: Intriguing proposition.
19 Oct, 2018: Who vivisected Mr Peanut? This week’s Software Defined Talk podcast: Whether you’re in the Malaysian cement industry or …
19 Oct, 2018: Creating a culture of change, continuous learning, & comfort Here’s another draft excerpt from my WIP book on digital transformation, this time on …
19 Oct, 2018: I be on it all night, man, I be on it all day, day!
18 Oct, 2018: DevOps Rex.
17 Oct, 2018: Nice socks.
17 Oct, 2018: Now I can have a cup of DevOps each day.
16 Oct, 2018: DevOps Rex.
16 Oct, 2018: Well, that escalated quickly.
16 Oct, 2018: DevOps Rex.
16 Oct, 2018: DevOps Rex.
16 Oct, 2018: “I just stepped into a big pile of SASSY!”
16 Oct, 2018: This is some Halloween pumpkin innovation right here:
16 Oct, 2018: It’s a big room here at DevOps Rex.
16 Oct, 2018: DevOps Rex.
16 Oct, 2018: Do you even mainframe?
16 Oct, 2018: DevOps Rex.
15 Oct, 2018: How to burrito.
15 Oct, 2018: Digital Transformation: Why Culture Is So Key Culture is the most important factor, way more important than technology, for example. By culture, …
15 Oct, 2018: Why Digital Workplace Apps Are Not Producing Great Customer Experiences 16 percent of respondents rate their digital experience offering in the top 25 percent. 26 percent …
15 Oct, 2018: A useful big data story In 2011 Friedberg decided to sell exclusively to farmers, and WeatherBill changed its name to The …
14 Oct, 2018: Play on, Playa.
14 Oct, 2018: (I’m imagining that sound of consternation that Rosco P. Coltrane does.)
14 Oct, 2018: Church Bells & Oatmeal Mid-morning in Amsterdam, Sunday.
13 Oct, 2018: This was called a Portuguese somethingornuther.
12 Oct, 2018: …as you do.
12 Oct, 2018: A description of my future memoir.
12 Oct, 2018: Sweet ride. 2) Pro-Dutch skillz in action there.
12 Oct, 2018: A good example of So one of our key thing is that we believe that our biggest competitor are not the other banks, but …
12 Oct, 2018: DOJ approves $69B CVS-Aetna merger as healthcare industry restructures CVS, which racked up about $185 billion in revenue last year, runs the country’s largest …
12 Oct, 2018: Private cloud spending is increasing, not decreasing By end of the year, IDC projects public cloud spending will account for 68.2 percent of total IT …
11 Oct, 2018: Mount up, my riders of BRUHain!
10 Oct, 2018: That’s some stack over there at @kpn.
10 Oct, 2018: Used English Books.
10 Oct, 2018: Check out that sweet (leaded?), old school glass.
10 Oct, 2018: The new tech effecting culture outline The trajectory of books about new technologies follows a similar pattern: first, hype; then, …
10 Oct, 2018: They’d really like you to know that agents are not required.
10 Oct, 2018: Always be not being a single product company.
10 Oct, 2018: It’s a sink party!
10 Oct, 2018: 'The gulf between apps and infrastructure is blurring' says boss of DevOps darling Puppet Their portfolio: Puppet Bolt, the company’s simplified open source automation framework, hit …
9 Oct, 2018: I located the only American coffee machine in Europe.
9 Oct, 2018: What a show off!
9 Oct, 2018: A big book of boutique.
9 Oct, 2018: SRE: The Biggest Lie Since Kanban That’s why SRE is a Big Lie – because it enables people to say they’re doing a thing that could help …
9 Oct, 2018: The Demise of Blockbuster, and Other Failure Fairy Tales Strategy is hard, execution at the middle-management later is harder. What’s missing from the story …
8 Oct, 2018: HEMA pesto. A tad salty, but you can’t eat just one status.
8 Oct, 2018: Hadoop Needs To Be A Business, Not Just A Platform Financial goop on Cloudera and HortonWorks merging: The deal for the merger of the two companies is …
7 Oct, 2018: Flavor town!
7 Oct, 2018: blaming the person, not their situation Heavy stuff, man: Our natural tendency is to see a person and their actions more vividly than the …
6 Oct, 2018: Land of contrasts.
6 Oct, 2018: One of the early versions of “dick in a box.”
5 Oct, 2018: “Don’t bother me, I’m workin’.”
5 Oct, 2018: I don’t always drink beer, but when I do, and the place only has one type of beer, I prefer that …
5 Oct, 2018: Square expands its bank-like offerings, letting sellers charge customers in installments Disrupters gonna disrupt, loans edition: This type of loan is typically reserved for retailers who …
5 Oct, 2018: Add It Up: FaaS ≠ Serverless Despite attempts to educate the market, we still believe the word “serverless” connotes many …
4 Oct, 2018: The legend is real!
4 Oct, 2018: I couldn’t really tell you WTF on this drinking charcoal thing, but they on point with that ghost.
4 Oct, 2018: Air Force wants to make 'Kessel Run' standard in tech acquisition “You’re probably going to see maybe a directive from us that basically says every acquisition …
3 Oct, 2018: Thanks to @lolvolpi, I got the meetup meal.
3 Oct, 2018: They’ve got this part of Brexit on lock-down.
2 Oct, 2018: Kind of an odd place.
2 Oct, 2018: Apple juice is the free bread basket of the juice world.
1 Oct, 2018: Pivotal and New Relic Deliver Visibility, Value, and Velocity A nice listing of some metrics to monitor out of the box in PCF, and just performance metrics, but …
1 Oct, 2018: Pivotal Cloud Foundry 2.3 A laundry list of new feature and services in the software I market around. There’s a lot of .Net …
1 Oct, 2018: Here’s what happened when the IRS’s electronic filing system crashed on Tax Day From the referenced report: Tax Day, April 17, 2018, the IRS experienced a storage outage due to a …
1 Oct, 2018: eBooks vs. Whitepapers Tirone expanded further by saying that whitepapers are often used by marketers to highlight the …
1 Oct, 2018: PCF and New Relic at West “Thomas said he plans to migrate hundreds of existing applications to Pivotal Cloud Foundry, which …
29 Sep, 2018: Not too bad as an everything chart for “strategy” www.safaribooksonline.com/library/v… And, a …
29 Sep, 2018: Product vs. process in corporate focus Companies get complacent because there’s no reason to change. They get out of practice. A new force …
29 Sep, 2018: You can take the boy out of Houston, etc.
29 Sep, 2018: Our metrics come from manufacturing Traditional measures originated from the early industrial revolution, with its theoretical basis in …
28 Sep, 2018: I’ve been saying it’s a land of contrasts this whole time.
27 Sep, 2018: I’m troubled by the presence of ketchup, but this will otherwise do for now.
27 Sep, 2018: USAF's plans for agile, DevOps, cloud Brief, but some names of apps they’ve modernized and high-level thinking in the broader portfolio …
27 Sep, 2018: Always be ping-ponging.
27 Sep, 2018: Lessons from the UK Government's Digital Transformation Journey It’s probably OK: In any organisation that’s been around for a while, ways of doing things …
27 Sep, 2018: Steel cut oats The calories are basically the same as those in instant. The biggest difference is that when you …
26 Sep, 2018: Wardley map in the wild, from Daimler. Sort of anonymized if the exact feature.
26 Sep, 2018: For some reason, I had cause to find this old photo of me in my DevOpsDays Amsterdam bathrobe.
26 Sep, 2018: How to have a good conversation What is conversation for anyway? I don’t even recommend being charming, or trying to be charming, …
26 Sep, 2018: No grits and gravy in Amsterdam, but there is now in my belly.
26 Sep, 2018: Changing culture with habits & the un-toasted panini quandary, with Kyle Campos It’s easy to understand what kind of IT culture you need if you’re going to improve how …
25 Sep, 2018: Photo by @monkchips.
25 Sep, 2018: 1 lbs. of peeps.
24 Sep, 2018: 10 years ago: Overall, Wardley called for a more open means of moving information between large, …
24 Sep, 2018: I mean, that’s of course what KLM’s inflight catalog would be called.
24 Sep, 2018: I also cleared ‘em out of steel cut oats. $3.50 a bag: crazy town!
23 Sep, 2018: “I've learned so many styles, forgive me” It’s worth taking a bit of time to reflect on figure 45. What we have is not only the user needs, …
22 Sep, 2018: Same.
22 Sep, 2018: These are available anywhere, at all hours of the day.
22 Sep, 2018: Our dog will likely never leave this.
22 Sep, 2018: Adobe didn’t fuck it up! This week’s Software Defined Talk Podcast. Also: There’s lots of …
20 Sep, 2018: I finally got a bike! (In the middle.)
19 Sep, 2018: Always watching.
19 Sep, 2018: Mesosphere revenue, etc. “Last year in Q4 we issued news about hitting a $50m run rate and this year’s Q2 marks our biggest …
19 Sep, 2018: Google making private cloud stuff Google is responding to enterprise computing needs by making custom-designed computers to run in …
19 Sep, 2018: Quest Software Enhances Kace Systems Management Appliance The all in one, mid-market systems management appliance. www.channelfutures.com/var-guy/q…
18 Sep, 2018: Thanks to my @pivotalsoftware coworkers, I finally found where they keep the proper steaks in the …
18 Sep, 2018: Creamcycle.
18 Sep, 2018: They really gussied up these labels.
17 Sep, 2018: Why change? Why would you bother to improve how you, an “enterprise,” does software? Here’s my …
17 Sep, 2018: It’s easy to shine when your co-workers are lazy AF.
16 Sep, 2018: (Not exactly a bike.)
16 Sep, 2018: I almost bought these just to have them.
16 Sep, 2018: Berlin.
16 Sep, 2018: Don’t outsource the unknown: Let us imagine a system with multiple components spread across …
15 Sep, 2018: Tiles.
15 Sep, 2018: This week’s commonplace book newsletter, just in time for doing fuck all on Saturday.
15 Sep, 2018: From You Belong Here.
15 Sep, 2018: Exploring the map – Wardley Maps Wardley’s take on riding the diffusion or understand curve: The uncharted space is where no-one …
14 Sep, 2018: The Air Force Will Treat Computer Coding Like a Foreign Language For example, when Defense Innovation Unit went to air operations centers in Middle East, the defense …
14 Sep, 2018: I assume this is the sequel to “Mostly British Problems.”
13 Sep, 2018: Probably fine.
13 Sep, 2018: You’ve always got options.
13 Sep, 2018: Asking the big questions.
13 Sep, 2018: I bet that person has a fun life.
13 Sep, 2018: Westin Grand Berlin.
12 Sep, 2018: Now that I live in Amsterdam and fly on KLM, I don’t get to enjoy my @americanair executive platinum …
12 Sep, 2018: Great Northern Hotel.
11 Sep, 2018: Step 0: grow a beard.
11 Sep, 2018: Even the best jokes need to be retired.
10 Sep, 2018: Better to freak out tomorrow than today Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason …
10 Sep, 2018: Someone eventually took the hangers.
10 Sep, 2018: From a webinar.
10 Sep, 2018: Data center staff are aging faster than the equipment “New skills, such as overseeing and managing SLAs for off-premises workloads, are needed, but …
10 Sep, 2018: There are two types of digital transformation. First, literally. You had and analog process (booking …
10 Sep, 2018: 🎙Product management, with Jonathan Sirlin.
10 Sep, 2018: By seeing each day and each situation as a kind of training exercise, the stakes suddenly become a …
10 Sep, 2018: After Sondergaard, analyst firms must take stock “Analysts become dancers and performers, with all the good and bad that involves. They can …
10 Sep, 2018: New Tech Spotlight: Fintech Investments Reach All-Time High In Q2 2018 “In Q2 of this year, fintech startups raked in a total of $19 billion in funding, pushing the …
10 Sep, 2018: Agile processes can transform companies from unexpected places: The VGZ success story At the topic of agile, lean, DevOps, and all that “digital transformation” stuff is a renewed focus …
10 Sep, 2018: VMworld 2018: Pivotal Container Service and the Long Road to NoOps [Swisscom’s] Massalt polled the audience, asking how many of them had experience with updating their …
10 Sep, 2018: Broadcom CEO Dangles CA Technologies Bait, Investors Bite Tan told investors during the company’s third fiscal quarter of 2018 conference call Thursday that …
10 Sep, 2018: New Common Sense Media survey finds more positives than negatives in teen use of social media ‘“Overall, Common Sense said teens are more likely to view social media as a good thing in their …
9 Sep, 2018: Flavors (it had, in fact, a sort of mixed flavour of cherry-tart, custard, pine-apple, roast turkey, toffee, …
9 Sep, 2018: a.co “Today, at the cutting edge of our current innovations, we know the following about our …
9 Sep, 2018: 🎙 the delight of looking over people’s shoulder - Cashed Out #12
9 Sep, 2018: “I’ve got to feel awkward before I can feel competent. And I want to master this.” Stopping the …
9 Sep, 2018: Kelly’s Hero’s.
9 Sep, 2018: Restaurant name: Sweet Biscuits.
9 Sep, 2018: Stickers.
9 Sep, 2018: Bricks.
9 Sep, 2018: These are all great ideas.
9 Sep, 2018: I took a picture of my artisanal food! I’m InstaAF!
9 Sep, 2018: When Concorde was the future “Concorde was pitched at the business set of the 1970s, with all of its 106 seats priced at …
8 Sep, 2018: Why Starting With End-to-End Customer Journeys Isn't Good For The Customer ‘Here’s how to make the argument to a stakeholder on your team that really wants to see that …
7 Sep, 2018: Internal Product Management: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly — Black Swan Farming For internal products, the “customer” is the enterprise, usually their strategy and execution, aka, …
7 Sep, 2018: ITSM’s own “DevOps renaissance” won’t come from copying DevOps “Service management” considered legacy thing. medium.com/@jonhall_…
7 Sep, 2018: No, Operations Isn’t Going Anywhere, But it's Going to Look Different Ops, still a thing. www.enterprisetech.com/2018/09/0…
7 Sep, 2018: Unknown Unknowns: The Problem of Hypocognition “Consider this: how well can you discern different shades of blue? If you speak Russian, Greek, …
7 Sep, 2018: Enterprise Software Priorities for the Next Decade estebankolsky.com/2018/06/e…
7 Sep, 2018: Impressions from VMworld “VMware’s ability to strategically partner to respond to shifting market forces is an impressive …
7 Sep, 2018: VMworld 2018: VMware Wants to Re-Architect Your Containers for NSX - The New Stack “The developer shouldn’t have to know how to program NSX, or know what the security isolation …
4 Sep, 2018: Delicious!
4 Sep, 2018: How to avocado.
2 Sep, 2018: I mean, if you’re in touch with your aesthetics, isn’t this the default choice?
2 Sep, 2018: Nope.
2 Sep, 2018: Wedding cake. Otherwise known as “not upside-down pineapple cake.”
2 Sep, 2018: “You might ask, ‘why are you painted like a bumble bee and at a 45 degree angle?’ Cause while you’re …
2 Sep, 2018: This bike is ready for the post-apocalypse. It always has a small bag packed: no wooden spoon here, …
1 Sep, 2018: I assume the working theory for this bar is: “clowns are actually not the scariest thing invented by …
7 Mar, 2018: 1954 Houses
7 Mar, 2018: The Hidden Costs of Cloud Adoption - when to private cloud, with fancy chart.
7 Mar, 2018: I like steak 24 ounce porter house steaks from the Amazon Treasure Truck.