TP–7 - teenage engineering - This is the weirdest looking recording gear I’ve ever seen. It’s so expensive that, like an expensive bottle of wine, I have to assume it’s good. Shipping without mics for such a price seems…weird?
from tasty broth to jiggly chicken slime in the fridge
That’s a chart from our recent State of Kubernetes survey that I’ll probably use a lot this year. Here’s my commentary on it from a blog post this week:
In our surveys, I’ve been using the software release cycle question to represent developer benefits. For the most part, the faster developers can release software, the better their software will be. There are exceptions, but not many. The sooner you have people using your software, the more feedback you’ll get about the quality, usability, and overall usefulness of your software.
Twitter doesn’t drive many substuck views - “At the start of the year, Twitter on average drove less than 3% of all views across Substack. Today, it accounts for less than 2%.” For my newsletter, Twitter is fine, it’s third place in views (2,923 since Dec 8th, 2022) after the actual newsletters (32,551), and the always mysterious “Direct” source (8,007). Twitter has also driven 31 new subscriptions, I currently have 593 subscribers.
IBM Watson missed the AI revolution, but Watsonx could become the heartbeat of the Generative Enterprise - Overview of the three parts of Watsonx, and discussion of what the deal is with it. I joined the waitlist.
Gartner Says Layoffs May Ultimately Harm Shareholder Returns - After firing people to lower costs, the remaining staff have to do more work, either demanding more pay of getting demoralized and seeking another job. Also, if you want to grow revenue, you’ll need more staff, so you’ll hire contractors, and eventually want to hire back more staff. There’s also a list of novel alternatives, including a four day work week!
Apple Makes More Fintech Moves With High-Yield Savings Account From Goldman Sachs - Very detailed overview of “Bank of Apple."
LCY station, London.
VMware strives to become the multi-cloud leader - Overview of VMware’s current strategy, etc. from the VMware analyst day.