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  • Top-down diagram of an attic bedroom. Two blue vertical lines mark the windows on opposite walls; a black circle representing an exhaust fan sits in front of the right window. A green rounded rectangle labeled

    AI Coding Costs Overtake Salaries, Broadcom’s Intelligence Processor, and sovereign cloud – Related to your interests, Thursday

    Defeat AI-Powered Threats with VMware Tanzu Spring Here’s the panel I hosted on how the Spring project is adapting to AI-powered threats. We covered the volume spike in Spring security reports, the kinds of vulnerabilities the models are good at finding, chained “narrative” attacks, the three-bucket fix/fork/ditch triage for open source deps, the clean-room rebuild…

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  • Ranch Dressing Crisis at the Border, the Legibility of Effort, and iPad Sadness – Related to your interests, Wednesday

    Ranch Dressing Crisis at the Border, the Legibility of Effort, and iPad Sadness – Related to your interests, Wednesday

    Also: AI lessons from SMB banks, build vs buy redux, and the return-to-office secret. Generated by ChatGPT on June 23rd, 2026. I’ve got two speaking things this week: Today at noon, Austin time: I’m hosting a three person panel on how the Spring Framework team has been dealing with all these AI-driven problems. It has…

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  • Illustration of a skeleton (Death) sitting cross-legged on a bell, holding the hands of an old winged figure of Time, both atop a globe.

    Implicit Rules, Paste Special, and Grand Theft Carp – Related to your interests, Sunday

    Also: the perfect length for a list, post-Christian kitsch, and the forth R. ICYMI Original content published since last time. Related to your interests AI Summaries I wanted to read these, but I didn’t make the time, so I asked the robot to summarize them.

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  • Analog/digital composite illustration from Warren Ellis

    Elusive AI ROI, 3,611 Government Use Cases, and Storied Colors – Related to your interests, Friday

    Elusive AI ROI, 3,611 federal AI use cases, and storied colors. // new links newsletter ed. // Plus Gartner says 70% of mainframe exit projects will fail, 60% of US consumers find “AI” in brand messaging a turnoff, AGENTS.md tips, PE 2.0, and the silent revolutionaries weren’t the boomers.

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  • Software Defined Talk listener survey

    Software Defined Talk listener survey

    Pardon the not-an-actual-newsletter episode of the newsletter, but… Do you listen to my podcast, Software Defined Talk? If you do, I’d appreciate you taking the time to fill out our listener survey. We do occasional ads and paid interviews, and this helps us do more and charge more. It means we can pay for the…

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  • The airwaves are always there

    The airwaves are always there

    You should check this out: You can try out our AI platform with a 90 day trial. It’ll host models in private cloud, act as a proxy to public models (OpenAI, Gemini, Anthropic, whatever), and has tight integration with Java apps. Python works fine too, of course: you can host LangChain in it to get…

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  • The European Sovereign Cloud Day Forecasts Stormy Weather For The Cloud Ecosystem – I watched this conference, as noted in past newsletter episode, the talks were great if this is a topic you’re interested.

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  • Minimum Viable All the Things

    Minimum Viable All the Things

    Max Ernst, 1934. Relative to your interests MCP Authorization in practice with Spring AI and OAuth2 – Filling in the missing piece of MCP: security. The Battle For Grounding Your AI Agents Has Begun – Data gravity considerations for AI. We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard. –…

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  • “Significant improvement but still issues.”

    “Significant improvement but still issues.”

    Not much today. Found at the ITQ offices. Wastebook “decision-makers can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent. Career advice in 2025. ”a concept as antiquated as intent.” NYTimes. “a felicitous remove.” Spicy. “Significant improvement but still issues.” Oxide and Friends. Relative to your interests A Conversation Algorithm I Cribbed From Clinical PsychologistsWhat does…

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  • 70s Sci-Fi Art – Good newsletter, lots of great styles.

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  • Substack Is Setting Writers Up For A Twitter-Style Implosion – Home With The Armadillo – Seems weird. // “New reporting from The Wrap details how Substack’s decision to implement a new “follow” feature — part of its transition from newsletter publishing platform to social media site — has tanked subscription growth for lots of newsletter…

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  • What does “outcome oriented” really mean?

    The Business Bullshit Dictionary I’m recording a few tiny videos defining some business-world jargon. “Input,” “outcome oriented,” “politics,” and, here, “bureaucracy.” Once you’ve been in the corporate world for a few years, you stop noticing these words and a few years later, you stop taking them seriously, or at least, in a nuanced way. They’re…

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  • New Report on Platform Engineering – what is it?

    New Report on Platform Engineering – what is it?

    Jennifer Riggins and The New Stack crew have a good booklet out on Platform Engineering. I read over it and talked with Jennifer a couple times. I should have recorded those calls to munge into some articles, but, whatever. You should check it out, I think it’s a good go at trying to nail down…

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  • Less Upcoming Than Usual

    Less Upcoming Than Usual

    A bonus Sunday episode! Waking up this morning, my first thought was how different my job is now with less travel. Like many tech companies, we have smaller budgets for travel. The means I can only take three or so trips a quarter unless I get someone else to pay for it, or for customer/sales…

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  • 2023-07-07 day note

    Put out a newsletter today. The musings on using ChatGPT for school obscure the real treat: me goofing around at the expense of DevOps and Platform engineering. I also finished up a mostly polished draft of a webinar I’m giving next week. Working with Darran has been great. He knows his stuff and helps me…

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  • 2023-06-09 day note

    A lot of post-production video work today. Doing all the work after you film and then fully edit a video takes a long time. It’s pretty much the same time for any length of video. The most difficult part if promoting it across the four or five channels I have. I don’t even spend time…

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  • Twitter doesn’t drive many substuck views – “At the start of the year, Twitter on average drove less than 3% of all views across Substack. Today, it accounts for less than 2%.” For my newsletter, Twitter is fine, it’s third place in views (2,923 since Dec 8th, 2022) after the actual newsletters (32,551), and the…

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  • Old picture of man on a bike, from History of a bicycle, Gordinne, 1894 - 1959 

    Man in yellow suit on a bike, “helpful” advice, a cassette tape, and links

    First, this delightful picture: . It’s a mid-week newsletter. Why? It feels like something helpful to do, sort of therapeutic. I’ve left a few self-promotion, things I’ve made things off the past two newsletters. Lucky you they’re below! As a reminder, we’ve started the Tanzu Talk podcast back up, so you should subscribe to it…

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  • Re-commit to our relationship

    Well, not that dramatic… If you enjoy this newsletter, you know I struggle to keep up with it. It’s annoying for me, and perhaps for you. So, I’ll try something new, being less perfect. You can subscribe to get notifications of posts I make to my blog, the more fragmentary version of this newsletter. I…

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  • The newsletter: Coté’s Wunderkammer

    For those RSS-nerds of you out there consuming this, I’d like to point out that most of my “blogging” is done in my newsletter now. I send it out once or twice a week as a collection of links, fragments of stuff I’ve written (usually some original, newsletter only content thereof), and otherwise wunderkammer like…

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