We spend an excruciating amount of time talking about how platform engineers add new services/middleware/whatever to internal developer platforms. It’s great if that’s relative to your interests.
The ongoing existential quandary of corporate presentations and meetings:
“PowerPoint’s job is simply to help you survive the presentation."
The full thought:
it doesn’t exactly help you communicate something (you do that in Word, or Excel); or coordinate something (you do that in Outlook, or nowadays Slack). PowerPoint’s job is simply to help you survive the presentation. It helps you cope: “You have no real power over this situation, yet you represent it.” And the experience of making slides, one after another, flows from that initial job-to-be-done of divide-and-conquering the presentation into individually survivable sections, slides, and bullet points.
There’s not usually such real-life stuff in VC blog posts.
Also: “getting lost in the sauce.”
Related: people in this study prefer AIs that write like great authors more than the original, human authors.
Related to your interests on Wednesday
Heads down on some stuff yesterday, so no post then. But here is a post now!
Let them eat hard work. “I would sell plasma to pay for Drafts if I had to.” Yay, Capitalism! Looking at the OpenRouter survey data. “Roleplaying”? Games on bookmarks. Illustrating Hyperborea
“We shall endeavor to survive the loss of your opinions.” Westenberg.
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.