Tag: wastebook
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Headless AI, Evals as Levers, and Spaghetti Topped With Spaghetti – Related to your interests, Monday
Also: Cloudflare’s wholesale memory, custom Claude Code, and Google Cloud math From The Edge Not Taken. Related to your interests Headless everything for personal AI – What if we go back and o the command line? // DOS was good enough for our grandparents, it’s good enough for us. The Harness Is the Lever: Why…
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DIY Stacks, Agent Memory, and the Great Migration – Related to your interests, Monday
Links! Wastebook! Background changes afoot! Potsdamer Platz bei Nacht, Paul Paeschke, ca. 1929. Related to your interests Why your DIY Kubernetes stack won’t survive the era of agentic AI How tech chiefs gauge ROI on AI – AI uses: better search, preparing leases, and this: “When the system senses that ice is running low, it…
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Tuesday Links and Wastebook
Relative to your interests I’m posting a lot more regularly on my weblog , most of the links below, and some content that doesn’t show up in the newsletter. Apologies if you’re living with duplicates. “CMDB” Is Dead — Long Live The IT Management Graph – What’s wrong with the CMDB concept, especially how it’s…
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Wastebook round-up
“As a writer I value the concept of boredom because it’s very useful in having ideas and letting your brain explore. Now I have to actively choose when to be bored.” Chose boredom. “‘Well,’ Birkin says, in heavily accented French, ‘did you learn anything about me from seeing ing bag?’ Then a grin: ‘Even if…
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All the photos, now available.
Here is a separate blog for “photo dumping.” In the old days of blogging, we had services like Flickr where you could put everything for those who cared. One did not want to fill their regular blog up with a run of odd photos. I remember reading that two friends who rarely saw each other…
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Half-ass Vibe Coding
I was on Cloud Foundry Weekly yesterday. We discussed “vibe coding.” More precisely, what I think of as “half ass vibe coding.” I get the AIs to write code for me, but then ask it questions, maybe even mess around with it myself. I think that might just be “coding with an AI assistant,” but…
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“Pageants of minor chaos”
Just wastebook and links this episode. Wastebook “So what is a critic for? This is the second quote that’s in my notebook. It’s in every notebook because I always write it on the first page: ‘Find a subject you care about and which you in your heart feel others should care about. It is this…
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Hee-haw cars and slinky kinks
Today it’s all wastebook. Garbage Chairs of Amsterdam, June Bug edition. Wastebook “gizmocrat” and ”gizmocrats,” new govt IT outsourcing term? “Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) was tweeting about guacamole prices over the weekend as Musk took over key functions of the government.” Two weeks in. “Anything threatening to be a subculture is commodified before it can…
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Links and fun finds for February 2rd, 2025
Hello. How are you today? Captured by Ken Shirriff. Relative to your interests D&D: Some Kind Of Monster (Type) – This is a great pondering of monster types and their, like, existential essence. Lots to think on! // “The convoluted agreements common to many Fey are an aspect of their adherence to a particular vector…
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Making money with open source, a discussion
Making Money with Open Source – Software Defined Interviews We talked about a lot more than making money with open source in this interview with RedMonk’s Rachel Stephens, but the part was pretty good: In this episode, Whitney Lee and Coté dive into the insights of Rachel Stephens from RedMonk about the world of being…
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Contemplate contemporary men’s waistlines
Private PaaS Along with our summary of Explore EU last week, around the start of this I go over my thinking about private PaaS, VMware, and Tanzu. At least that’s what I remember doing. Wastebook “THINGS HAVE NEVER BEEN BETTER—BUT THEY’RE IMPROVING” Systemantics. The Systems Bible, John Gall. And: “we are interested, not in the…
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Employee Mode
You are a company of one: Click here to watch the video. If you liked that, there’s more of my take on “employee mode” in the ten part video series I did for O’Reilly: “How to Survive and Thrive in a Big Company: Tactics and Practices to Manage Your Time and Relationships.” How about that…
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My favorite PaaS
This is just my, personal take on what Tanzu is, not an official statement. But I think it’s a pretty good one! :) For a more in-depth look, check out Dekel’s recent videos. Also, if you like the full on corporate sheen take, take a look at the Tanzu Platform Solution brief. Wastebook “the ontological…
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Publishing an annual survey is a great marketing tool, even better for thought-leadership
Using Surveys for Marketing Wastebook They dress like they’re Chaotic Good, but they’re totally Lawful Good under all that sloppy couture. This is some buck-wild ABM: a direct appeal to Delta to buy their AI stuff. “I wrote this one when my family was in Hawaii, too. I kind of had a meltdown there, to…
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Links and strange finds from the World Wide Web
Hello there! Wastebook “I spent my early childhood in a 15-minute city. It was called the 1950s.” Here. “a cybercriminal selling data from these breaches told its researchers that they had been able to compromise a Snowflake employee’s ServiceNow account using credentials stolen via infostealer malware, bypassing SSO provider OKTA.” // Security in 2024. What…
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“Be an active bystander.”
Just wastebook and links this episode. Wastebook If you’re a writing type suffering from imposter’s syndrome, spend some time as an editor. You’ll soon discover that writing is incredibly hard, so if you can pull it off, you’re the real deal. “Preview The Magnitude Of Our 2024 Agenda” – subject line of a Forrester email.…
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Microwaving Fish & Rice Cookers
Just links and waste book today. Wastebook “If it ain’t broke, don’t cloud it,” me, 2011. Follow and mute. “Dell’s employees, whom I believe are mostly adults and not small children, will be given colour-coded ratings to shame those who don’t come into the office enough.” Justin Warren’s newsletter, “The Crux #93.” “Largest companies most…
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Not one of my most famous newsletters
Today it’s just a links and wastebook clean out. Two Recent Garbage Chairs on Amsterdam I’ve found a few Garbage Chairs of Amsterdam recently. Truth be told, I stopped looking. When I moved here, the locals were bemused about all my photos “I never really thought about that,” they’d say, “but; yeah, there are a…
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I only give one talk a year, but I give it many times
Relative to your interests Can we reenergize the transactional workforce? – Hmm. Cloud without Kubernetes – Start by hiding Kubernetes, only touch it as needed. There’s enough work to do already. Wastebook “Unhappiness with air travel took a new turn when maggots rained down on passengers on a Delta flight from Amsterdam to Detroit, Michigan,…
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