If your deal is nostalgia for another time (imagined on real), your customers are likely conservative regarding modernizing. They want things to stay the same, the job to be done, brand wise, is a nostalgia experience. Hopefully the food has good price/performance too. // Cracker Barrel halts remodels after logo backlash, lackluster test
“Today the only full time employees besides him are Horvitz and two full time editors. The rest of the staff – a book keeper and the remaining 23 editors – are part time working remotely in enough different time zones to supply Techmeme and Mediagazer with near 24×7 coverage.” // Gabe Rivera’s 20-year-old headline site, Techmeme, has never been hotter.
Looks like great additions for MCP. Spring AI 1.1.0-M1 Available Now
“won’t be available if both the user is physically in the EU and their Apple Account region is in the EU.” www.macrumors.com/2025/09/1…
“GenAI can help you write talk proposals, but if you use it without injecting your own curiosity and humanness, reviewers can tell. Here’s the process I use to shape real, human abstracts that reflect my curiosity and experience. I developed this process for technical talks, but it adapts well to other formats too.” From Whitney.
VMware Explore and SpringOne Highlights from the Tanzu Division’s Chief Marketing Officer Kevin Strohmeyer - Tanzu - ”I think explaining to our customers the movement of all the Kubernetes resources into VCF was important in positioning VCF as a complete infrastructure solution and then having clarity that Tanzu Platform is a true, pre-engineered Platform as a Service (PaaS) based on Cloud Foundry. I think some customers were not aware of that change, and appreciate the power of simplicity with CF and how we are continuing to invest in that proven technology with Tanzu Platform 10.3.
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6 NotebookLM features to help students learn - Just in time for school!
Platform engineering is about more than what’s going on Backstage - An internal developer platform is a lot of work, not just installing the UI layer. // Also, check out the Syntaso people popping up!
Conflicting opinions on the ROI of AI - Yeah, it’s up in the air at the moment. I think we need to get a better handle on what use cases work. Is it just chat, code generation, and better search? What are the other apps?