Category: newsletter
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A ChatGPT prompt for solo roleplaying Dungeons & Dragons
Here’s an overview of the prompt I’m currently using to play D&D with ChatGPT: In my mind, I’ve got as new talk that evaluates several of the AIs out there based on how well they can play Dungeons and Dragons. After using ChatGPT for about a year, I have first hand experience that makes all…
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“14 pints of mouthwash rations per week” – alcohol in Wes Anderson movies
There is already a delightful article on all this, but… If I needed some kind of thesis or dissertation, how about the roll of alcohol in Wes Anderson movies. How is it used as a plot device, character motivation, and just overall establishing the Wes Anderson feel. The rat in The Fantastic Mr. Fox is…
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Getting Buck-Wild in PowerPoint
“They say all foxes are slightly allergic to linoleum, but it’s cool to the paw, try it.” Enshittification considerificated This week’s Software Defined Talk, episode 451: How does anyone use the Internet? This week, we discuss what “enshittification” is, what causes it, and whether it can be prevented. Plus, stay tuned until the end to…
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“Don’t Try” Expanded
The “p” in IDP is for portal, not platform. Photo from Craig I, 2009. I think about this headstone often. It’s a well known, eye-rolling cliché is that, of course, he meant to let art flow through you effortlessly. He was, after all, a poet. For those of us who can’t just pour the muse…
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If you’re not changing tools, you’re not changing
All Talk, No Tools I like heuristics you can use to figure out what’s “really” going on at work (well, in any system, I guess). When it comes to Big Change, one of the heuristics I like to use is to ask if the organization is using new tools. My colleague Bryan Ross has a…
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What does “synergies mean”?
… I implore you to click on the video above because I live for the views, but if you (like me!) can’t stand video, here is the transcript: Synergies is actually a very useful precise word in the business world but it gets overused and it’s not well understood. What it means is that if…
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We built a platform, but no one uses it – developer adoption is a marketing problem
Every platform team I have talked with over nine years hits the same wall: they built the thing and developers ignored it. The fix is marketing and developer advocacy, which IT has never had to be good at.
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Touching the Flying Spaghetti Monster
Upgrade That Spring! If you do Spring stuff in a large enterprise, you should check this thing out. Relative to your interests AI for Economists – Some prompt formations and stuff for the ChatGPT and friends. Signs that it’s time to leave a company – Attempts to get people back in the office are something…
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Tamale House
Not much today, just cleaning up the queue. Wastebook “Look, it’s a Cybertruck!” – yelled out by a Bay Area co-worker I was talking with on the phone as they drove into work. “In one way this is ‘just’ the evolution of the comment section.” Here. If you’re saying something you believe to be true,…
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Backstage, Java, and remote work – three more things to watch in 2024
Here are the other three things I’m going to watch in 2024. By “watch,” I suppose I mean “I really hope something interesting and definitive happens here instead of just a continuation of what was going on in 2023.” I put the first one (our old k-friend) in yesterday’s episode. Backstage – in 2022 and…
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Does kuberbetes make application development and delivery better? – 2024 Watch List
I don’t like annual predictions. Thankfully, no one’s asked me to do a big post about them this year, but usually I’m asked to do something formal. I always end up just predicting the same thing – predictions turn a lot more into hopes and dreams. I do like flagging things to pay attention to,…
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American Christmas, part 3
American Christmas, part 3 Kids out and about in their pajamas. “Help me remember that our full size mini-van is hidden behind this Suburban.” Adults out and about in their pajamas. “Here’s the check. No rush, though!” Massive, high capacity washing machines that would fit a calf. The cheap wine is still expensive. Free electricity…
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American Christmas
Only In American Still warm tortillas. Adults wearing joke t-shirts. Yoga pants. Free packets of ketchup, mustard, and mayonnaise. Ice with every drink. 75 mph. Stern TSA. Little plastic shopping bags. No GDPR pop-ups. 20% tips before checkout. Donuts. Right turn on red. Ice machine in fridge. Very big bowls. Eggs in the fridge California…
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How to tell if you’re doing agile wrong
I really liked my co-worker Paul Kelly’s post on this topic, plus some anti-patterns. So I made the video above! You may recall him from a discussion with Cora and me a few months back as well. Even if you don’t deign to watch my silly shit above, you should check out his post. Relative…
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