IowaI’m in Des Moines, Iowa for the keynote I’ll be giving at DevOpsDays here. I believe their registration is closed, so…if you’re not already registered, I won’t be seeing you! But, you can check me out rehearsing it here. There’s 20 minutes of bonus content! Like and subscribe, MOFOS!
Garbage Chairs of Amsterdam.ChatDM - Dealing with short-term memoryIf you’re interested in my recent experiments to get ChatGPT to act a Dungeon Master for solo-play Dungeons & Dragons, check out my recent write-up.
Bootstrapping ChatGPT 3.5 and ChatGPT 4 to be a Dungeon Master for solo play in Dungeons & Dragons
I’ve been experimenting/playing a lot with ChatGPT as a Dungeon Master. I like to call this “ChatDM.” That is, I’m a player, and it DMs for me. It’s not, like, great, but it is good enough if you want to co-imagine with it. Overtime, it is a great world building co-author with you. The current problem with using ChatGPT as a Dungeon Master is that it doesn’t have a long enough memory.
What VMware’s AI Vision Means for Your Job - Figuring out how AI will affect tech stuff.
Survey finds relatively few Americans actually use (or fear) ChatGPT - 30% to 40% (for young adult males) seem like a lot too me. // “Ongoing polling by Pew Research shows that although ChatGPT is gaining mindshare, only about 18% of Americans have ever actually used it. Of course that changes by demographic: Men, those 18-29 and the college educated are more likely to have used the system, though even among those groups it’s 30-40%."
The Ultimate Guide to Developer Counter-Productivity - Focus on outcomes, not activities…mostly. So long as the activities are good and lead to outcomes. // Yes, and…many tasks may not seem directly tied to value, but they are. If you don’t measure where a shelf goes on a wall, when you hang it, there’s a good chance it will look shit. If you don’t take your compliance training in a bank, the bank could be operating illegally. If you don’t take time to meet with other teams (people), when it comes to needing to work with them, it will be harder. Also, if the outcomes you’re unproductive developers are getting are greats, who cares about LoC.
Man, Myth & Magic The Illustrated Encyclopedia Of Mythology 21 Volumes In 1 - This is the kind of stuff I’d pursue and spend hours looking through in the 80’s.
Dark Mode: How Users Think About It and Issues to Avoid - A lot more on dark mode than you thought was possible to write about // “Aesthetic appeal and improved accessibility are the strongest arguments for supporting dark mode."
Mindsets and Tactics for New Leaders of Software Teams - Seems like good stuff.
Garbage Chairs of Amsterdam.
IncrativeOps - or notes from a recovering thought-leader
If you can’t be at DevOpsDays Des Moines later this week (or stackconf in Berlin next week) to see the final version of this presentation, here’s my first time running through it. It container about 20 minutes of…uh…bonus material.*
Meaning, things I need to cut.