There’s a fine line between “charming” and “annoying.”
Garbage Chairs of Amsterdam, thrown away properly at the Milieudepot Duivendrecht
Inside The Sandcastle (Het Zandkasteel, Amsterdam)
Platforms, Agents, Anxiety, and Ice Cream
Garbage Chairs of Amsterdam.This week it’s a digest of the flow of stuff. If you want to keep up day-to-day, and even more content not included below, check out my newly reborn Weblog on The World Wide Web.
Original ContentThings I’ve writtenA great platform as a product paper, and a fun platform philosophy thereof.
The Security Gap in AI Applications: Rethinking API Protection for a New Era.
20 years of business travel - you’ll get there, or you won’t.
Adding security and governance to Model Context Protocol - How Broadcom uses MCP
Here’s the benefits Broadcom is getting from using MCP (running on Tanzu Platform):
This capability allows for seamless task completion, such as linking internal ticketing systems directly through to code commitment, significantly reducing the time required for ticket resolution. Specifically, developers can utilize natural language processing to direct an AI agent to find their next task, have the AI coding assistant implement the requested changes, and automatically submit a pull request.
Relevant to your interests on Monday
Don’t let having an opinion and knowing what you like (being a critic in the classical sense) ruin your enjoyment of everything in life. Yet another cross-platform graphical process/system monitor, bottom. They travel with a knife-sharpener. Smart Tool Selection: Achieving 34-64% Token Savings with Spring AI’s Dynamic Tool Discovery People are often the largest part of an ROI sudy. Abby Bangser’s keynote at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2025. Check out Tyler’s theory of interview podcasts at the end.
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.
As I get older, I need to do less “let’s see what happens.”
It is hard to keep up with American corporate smile-energy.
The curse of enterprise maturity
Enterprises have a habit of “professionalizing” consumer tech by adding control - security, compliance, cost management, approved architectures. All reasonable. And often exactly what kills the thing.
Heroku and early cloud worked because they removed friction: no tickets, no permission, no approved stack. Developers could move fast, make local tradeoffs, and live with the consequences.
Enterprise adoption usually means re-introducing the friction the tech was designed to eliminate. It’s called maturity.