Tag: AustinTechScene
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What Is the Point of Austin’s Fake AI Restaurant? – You usually this to build up follow for an account to sell to someone, then they delete all the content and start new with all those followers. But wouldn’t be it cool if it was some kind of new, surreal performance art?
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Impressions of America from an expat
Notes on what it’s like to be back, compare and contrast. Also, analysis of our recent kubernetes survey Lots going on at the moment. We’re on vacation for two weeks, finally going back to Texas to visit. Most of our family hasn’t met our two year old, born at the start of COVID in Amsterdam.…
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Link: The case against Amazon HQ2 for Austin
“Austin’s tech talent pool has become increasingly tight, and it would be better for our economy to grow by 50 companies with 1,000 employees each than by one mega-project with 50,000 employees.” Original source: The case against Amazon HQ2 for Austin
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Coté Memo #6 – OpenStack, big cloud transformation
The OpenStack Summit was pretty good stuff. Coming up next week is DevOpsDays Austin where I’ll be speaking on Tuesday and staffing the table. I’m then off to the Agile and Beyond conference to talk better ways of doing software and unicorns. Hopefully I’ll see y’all around, otherwise, keep apprised of the Twitters for any…
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Coté Memo #5 – OpenStack, an interest in cheese
I’ll be at the OpenStack Summit in Austin this week, meandering about talking with folks, at the Cloud Foundry Foundation booth a few afternoons, getting some pancakes and breakfast tacos with The New Stack folks, visiting with some analysts and other in-town, and moderating a panel on developer marketing Thursday morning. Also, I got my…
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Coté Memo #078: Spiceworld 2015, Spiceworks Momentum, Enterprise Use, and DevOps
Tech & Work World I was at Spiceworld, briefly, last week. This is Spiceworks’ big user, annual conference in Austin; they have one in London as well. I’ve followed Spiceworks for many years (from RedMonk to 451 Research) and have always liked their IT management approach: their business model is to be the Facebook of…
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Coté Memo #069: Chili Cheese Tots, shift key avoidance syndrome
Follow-up, Follow-forward The column I excerpted from last time is up, over at FierceDevOps: Software-defined businesses need software-defined IT departments. Tell me what you think; they asked me to write a monthly piece, so I’d love to get some ideas for topics going: got any? I got some good feedback on the podcast sponsorship meanderings.…
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Down on the Guadalupe River
Despite an estimated net worth of $1.2 billion, Mr. Weston, 48, lives modestly with his wife and three children in a 2,300-square-foot double-wide trailer on the banks of the Guadalupe River just outside of San Antonio. In addition to being a successful dot-com and real estate investor, he descends from British nobility on his mother’s…
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Taming the backyard jungle
We’d been away from the house for a few weeks, and it rained plenty. The result was a “jungle” in the backyard which required some weed-whacking and high mowing:
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Hamthrax in the neighborhood – Austin’s Very Own #42
To listen to the episode, subscribe to the podcast feed in iTunes or whatever, download the episode directly, or click play below to listen right here: Click here for episode MP3 Driving back from the gym, Kim and I talk about exposure to swine flu, which we never suffered from, except to be bored. We…
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