Continuous Authorization to Operate (cATO) needs a DevSecOps platform - This is written in US Federal government speak, but the same benefits apply to commercial enterprises. If you use a centralized PaaS for your apps instead of customized infrastructure per each app, you can certify the layers below the application as compliant to use. Then when you put new all code on it, you only need to certify a thin layer of new code. The more traditional alternative (a customized infrastructure stack per app) means you have to certify the whole stack for each new app version. That takes a lot more time than the wafer thin layer of app.
Parents' Earnings and the Returns to Universal Pre-Kindergarten - “parents work more hours, and their earnings increase by 21.7%. Parents' earnings gains persist for at least six years after the end of pre-kindergarten. Excluding impacts on children, each dollar of net government expenditure yields $5.51 in after-tax benefits for families”
Sorry, GenAI is NOT going to 10x computer programming - People have been using generative AI to help with coding for a couple years now. Is it making 10x developers? This guy tries to make the excitement more realistic by pulling together research on the topic.
Departure Mono - This font from Tobias Fried, Departure Mono, is amazing. Well, amazing if you remember dot-matrix printers and the screens in the Aliens movie. What’s even more amazing is the website: be sure to scroll and keep scrolling.
Users engage with only 6% of product features: Product benchmark findings - ”We found that even the best product teams are focusing on features that aren’t being used by their end users. While 6.4% of features are driving 80% of clicks, almost 94% of features are untouched and ignored.”
Workers have AI confidence — but no training to back it up, survey shows - ”Nearly two-thirds of leaders said AI is “fully implemented” across their organizations, while only 36% of workers agreed. Additionally, 60% of leaders say they are ahead of their competitors in AI maturity, while only 46% of workers agreed.”
Croissant - Good looking cross posting app for Mastodon, BlueSky, and Threads. Adding in Shortcut support would be awesome.
Shambles, But Make It Digital - School IT is a mess. As with enterprise IT, I bet it could be better by just choosing one platform, no matter the compromises. My kids have three or four systems (ManageBac, Google Classrooms, also email). They haven learned the corporate skills of keeping up with all of this, and it shows. If the school had a semester long course on “office work,” it might be OK, but they don’t.
RTO or GFTO - RTO is like a dress code.
CEO Kurian: ‘When I Started, Most People Told Me We Didn’t Have a Chance’ - “We’re now the fourth largest enterprise software company.”