From my Cloud Foundry Day EU talk. See the slides if you want to zoom in and click on the citations. My friends at Rabobank corrected a figure: they support 300 developer teams, not just developers.

Next week in Frankfurt, October 7th, 2025: Cloud Foundry Day. I’m speaking in my ongoing attempts to help out the CF community with…marketing! Here is the agenda:

The talk discusses how platform engineers can navigate AI support, emphasizing the need for middleware, customer engagement, and rapid experimentation.

Recent discussions on enterprise AI reveal that while individual workers may benefit from productivity gains, the overall ROI for companies remains unclear and challenging to measure.

This a good, correct framing of the AI project failure stuff. No one really knows what will work and what they’re doing yet. As we learned in the digital transformation craze of the 2010’s, this means failure == learning. And learning is what you need to do a lot of. More so, this kind of rapid learning, innovation, and sense making is exactly what a platform like Tanzu Platform with Cloud Foundry is excels at, and has a long, proven history of supporting.

Claude Code is being utilized beyond coding, particularly for analyzing and reformatting plain text notes, suggesting that AI may emerge as standalone applications rather than being integrated into existing software.

The new Use Model shortcut in Apple Shortcuts opens up a lot of possibilities. For example, I like to summarize a lot of pages. Sometimes, ChatGPT can’t get the text for those pages, or I don’t trust the text it retrieves. There’s a shortcut that will retrieve the cleaned up text of a page (as markdown). So, you can get that markdown, and with the new Use Model shortcut, you can summarize it and then send the markdown summary to Drafts.

A collection of work-related content produced between November 2024 and July 2025 pertains to technology discussions, particularly focusing on AI, platform engineering, and private cloud solutions.

In macOS Tahoe, you can finally export Apple Notes in markdown. This is great, and even exports images and handwriting from the Apple Pencil. You can also bulk export, which is great! Sadly, bulk exporting images and handwriting doesn’t work. It saves the images and handwriting in a file called Attachements, but then in the actual note markdown, all references to images are to a file called FallbackImage.png. Also, it exports an sqlite database.