After migrating my Mastodon instance from social.lol to here, I seem to have lost about 1,000 followers. I’m sure they are enjoying a little less pictures of chairs next to garbage cans.

Getting a slice of the Kubernete$ management pie

How big the Kubernetes market?TAM-time for managing Kubernetes: The container management market has grown more than 20% over the past year, with a market value of over $2.5 billion in 2024. The market is forecast to exceed $4.5 billion in constant currency by 2028, with a 17.6% compound annual growth rate (CAGR). Gartner, August, 2025. That TAM means that every vendor looking to sell Kubernetes is competing for slice of $3bn to $4bn pie.

Invisible to the robots

In my searches/research, analysts like Gartner, IDC, and Forrester are invisible to ChatGTP, Claude, etc. The robots will find the reports licensed by vendors - I’m guessing only if they don’t require leadgen. The analysts should probably start publishing some juicy abstracts with just enough numbers, analysis, and advice to get into the training data and search results to get people to funnel to their pages. Of course, converting a rando-click to a $95,000 PDF would be some real funnel-management magic.

Battle Maps for The Dying Unicorn adventure

Maps for The Dying Unicorn side adventure, which did not have any, being a small adventure. I like very large battle maps maps rather than the standard 40x30 or whatever. Ranged with long bows and the like aren’t too fun on tiny maps. Plus, if you end up playing a cat and mouse game, you need space to roam around. Making these maps is also part of the “play,” especially when doing solo D&D.

“Executize this” -> “write this for someone who doesn’t care about the topic but needs to deal with it for their job."