D&D battle maps are one of the funnest parts of D&D. Just looking at them is fun, finding them can be a tiny thrill, and making them is a delightful way to spend hours of time. Oh, and using them. I’ve used Midjourney to make D&D battle maps in the past, especially to make really large battle maps. That works great! ChatGPT was never that good at it, until now.
Make an oracle with an MCP Server in Java with Spring AI - Solo roleplaying D&D with agentic AI, #01
Playing D&D with ChatGPT, Claude, or whatever is fun. But sometime you want more control over how it behaves and what it does. Check out this video for a quick tutorial on creating an oracle plugin for Claude. This “plugin” is a Model Context Protocol Server written in Java using Spring AI. Once you create the MCP Server, you can hook the oracle into Claude which will use it while you play as a simple yes/no oracle.
Broadcom’s Tanzu gets AI updates, but is definitely not Kubernetes - Purnima Padmanabhan, GM for Tanzu, explained that these updates can lower the barrier of entry for developers and allow users to more quickly run their applications with AI integration “while maintaining complete security and lower down time… Even though it’s more advanced, it’s actually easier to adopt because I don’t have to have skill sets in my developers to muck around with YAML files and configurations. I don’t have to have people know and spell the various projects in Kubernetes like service mesh or what is your service discovery.”
VMware ups Tanzu’s gen AI support, sheds Kubernetes dependence - Tanzu Platform integrates generative AI capabilities and shifts away from Kubernetes, aiming to streamline AI application development and deployment.
This 7,000-year-old mummy DNA has revealed a ‘ghost’ branch of humanity - A lost genetic line.
Top 10 Platform Engineering Takeaways from PlatEngDay & KubeCon London 2025 - I should probably read this.
Augmented Coding: an Experience Report - Getting an app released requires so many things that humans will always find something to do, and more that can now be done better.
Keith McNally’s Regrets… and his Dazzling, Driven Life - Sounds like fun-good book. // “Keith never makes a fuss about caring either. Instead, he subtly creates a sense that, if you’re there, you belong there, not because you’ve elbowed through some arduous gatekeeping process, but because your comfort is being seen to, and all you have to do is enjoy it."