Tag: tools

  • How to think about infrastructure software as strategic instead of just tools. Plus, evaluating if your should migrate from massive stack to another. 🔗 Why Migrating from VMware Isn’t as Simple as Changing Hypervisors

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  • Who invited these goofballs into my workshop of hand-crafted excellence

    I think the point is: it’s nice the professionals can make excellent content. It’s fun that the rest of us can now putter around the edges of that, ten seconds at a time. // Also, looks like a good example of a “Strasian reading” with Casey, there. While he is condemning AI generated images, he…

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  • The Ditherinator – Convert your photos to shitty old versions that will print well on dot matrix printers. Love it.

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  • MCP Is RSS for AI: More Use Cases for Model Context Protocol – I like this: “I’m inclined to think of MCP as RSS for AI.” // Once prompts are used as intended – to be user initiated activity in the UI, we’ll see if things evolve. Think of an MCP prompt as adding a…

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  • Agents are models using tools in a loop – “Agents are models using tools in a loop,” Anthropic’s Hannah Moran.

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  • sharkdp/fd – “Intuitive syntax: fd PATTERN instead of find -iname ‘PATTERN’.”

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  • I’m Tired of Pretending Tech is Making the World Better – Try to avoid tools that require you to acquire new tools to use the first tools.

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  • If you’re not changing tools, you’re not changing

    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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  • Beware the Digital Whiteboard – The assertion: writing with whiteboarding/Sticky notes is not good, and can lead to leaky abstractions. Seem more like a “right tool for the job” thing, plus the usual garbage in, garbage out, regardless of the tool used to process the garbage.

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  • Kubernetesless is just someone else’s Kubernetes

    Kubernetesless is just someone else’s Kubernetes

    Read to the end to see an illustration of the inner workings of cloud infrastructure. For all the interest in Kubernetes, there’s not actually many apps running on it right now. Gartner’s Wataru Katsurashima estimates that “by 2027, 25 percent of all enterprise applications will run in containers, an increase from fewer than 10 percent…

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  • Link: Datadog log monitoring software branches out as DevOps spreads

    ‘Enterprises initially implemented DevOps within specialized groups that owned a specific application and chose their own IT management tools, said Nancy Gohring, analyst at 451 Research. “Then one day, the enterprise woke up and saw it had 50 different tools, and in some cases, multiple instances of the same tool, each managed by different people,”…

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