Tag: blog
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Use AI to write more shorter pieces
While people are all excited shout using LLMs to write – which is awesome, I am all about AI empowering people to do things they didn’t have the agency to do, writing being one of them – I am imploring y’all to get the LLMs to write more concisely. I am looking at all y’all…
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What would an annual intellectual purge look like? Accounting for and getting rid of unfinished thoughts and beliefs to start fresh, rather, declutter the mind. The goal is something like inbox bankruptcy.
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“The quick post is low-context, the effortpost is high-context.” As summarized a bit better: “The quick post is low-context, the effortpost is high-context.” 🔗 Why people like your quick bullshit takes better than your high-effort posts
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Many things can be forgiven if you put on a clean shirt.
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The Potato, the Spreadsheet, and the AI That Checks Its Own Work
Of late, the newsletter has turned into me linking to longer posts on my blog. There’s the usual links and wastebook as well. This makes it more of a digest than a stand-alone item. As you can tell by the volume of blog posts below, I like blogging though and I’m glad I’m doing I…
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Vibe coding toolchain and method
A lot of effort went into making this effortless. 🔗 Just Talk To It – the no-bs Way of Agentic Engineering, Peter Steinberger
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6 Fixes For Your Solo TTRPG Campaign –
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Do these dual images say anything about your personality? – It doesn’t matter if you saw a rabbit, a vase, or an old woman. // “We didn’t find very much support for the claims, but there were some correlations in our data.”
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Why is developer experience so bad if we all think software is so important?
This week’s Tanzu Talk podcast (video above) is all about developer experience, and COBOL: “75% of IT and business executives say that their companies’ ability to compete is directly related to their ability to release quality software quickly” reads a recent Forrester Consulting report. If that’s the case, why are so many developer in large…
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Free Lunch – Some strong Amsterdam type vibes here. // “Free Lunch is an all-caps display font that would look comfortable in a butcher shop window. Or a lunch counter menu in 1955. Or printed on the waxed paper that wraps a half-pound of Swiss cheese from your neighborhood deli. A little playful, great for…
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from tasty broth to jiggly chicken slime in the fridge
That’s a chart from our recent State of Kubernetes survey that I’ll probably use a lot this year. Here’s my commentary on it from a blog post this week: In our surveys, I’ve been using the software release cycle question to represent developer benefits. For the most part, the faster developers can release software, the…
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Picture Wastebook 02
Saturday is when I clean out the pictures wastebook. Each picture links back to the source, and if there is no link, I took the picture…or lost the link. Logoff See y’all next time!
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Google is not hardcore enough, or…wait…maybe it sounds like a great place to work – a Rorschach test
*If I had more time, the Excel macro jokes would be better.* *Suggested sound track for this episode:* download share download share Embed this albumsmallmediumlarge Email: – – – Sorry, this track or album is not available. Sorry, this player does not support your browser. Your browser must either support native…
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Coté’s Commonplace Book #44
There is no Thanksgiving in the Netherlands. WHO KNEW?! Winter is settling in here. As a Texan, I barely understand winter. But, also as a Texan, I find cold weather novel and fun. We’ll see if that lasts, but for now, it’s awesome. Also, biking turns out to be fantastic. Living all my life in…
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Coté’s Commonplace Book – Issue #36
We move to Amsterdam in 5 days. We’re nearly done packing up our whole house. It’s surprisingly easy to just get rid of things, all things: clothes, kitchen stuff, furniture. People say this all the time and it’s true: you should get your house in shape for selling while you live there so you can…
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Spreading the happy-sauce – Coté Memo #24
Hello, as I like to do every six or so months, I moved some publishing infrastructure around. This time, back to Revue from the fully automated Mailchimp. Yay me. Links Here’s a mix of things I’ve done recently and other items I liked. The Frontside Podcast: 10 Pounds of Dirt in a 5 Pound Sack…
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Help me finish this agile PDF, hear @bwhichard complain about Agile – Coté Memo #19
It’s the day before elections in the US. If you haven’t already, go out and vote. Kim and Cormac are up in Ohio block walking to get out the vote, which is amazing. In retrospect, I should have gone with them. I’ll have to remedy that for the next elections, about two year’s time I…
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We are afflicted with the same disease. It’s hard (impossible?) to find a day job that is consuming so we look for other stuff to fill that void, which of course just makes us insane As one of my friends put it. Indeed!
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