Original contentHere’s two of my podcasts to share with you:
Capitalism is working, Software Defined Talk #534: “This week, we discuss the US backing Intel, SaaS staying power, and AI’s impact on deep work. Plus, Matt Ray’s moving tips and more kolache talk in the after show.” Also available, unedited, in video form.
The business value of developer relations, devrel history, plus more stuff, with Mary Thengvall: “In this episode, Whitney and Coté chat with Mary Thengvall, exploring the development and significance of Developer Relations (devrel) over the years.
Meta Says Threads Has Over 400 Million Monthly Active Users - “What is even more amazing about this statistic is how non-essential Threads seems to be."
The Business of ChatGPT - Revenue and such numbers circa. August, 2025.
One Way Parents Can Fight the Phone-Based Childhood - GPT5: “Phones are not the root cause; they’re the symptom of a constrained, over-supervised childhood. The solution isn’t banning devices but giving kids freedom back: unsupervised play, local friends, independence. If parents want kids off screens, they must open the door–literally–and rebuild the conditions that once made childhood social, adventurous, and real."
ai-development-patterns, PaulDuvall - ”A comprehensive collection of patterns based on my experience for building software with AI assistance, organized by implementation maturity and development lifecycle phases. These patterns are subject to change as the field evolves.”
Microsoft says U.S. law takes precedence over Canadian data sovereignty - Great picture too.
Kubernetes Isn’t Enough for a Production-Ready Platform - Yeah. You should buy your platform instead of build it.
AWS CEO says AI replacing junior staff is ‘dumbest idea’ - ‘Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman has suggested firing junior workers because AI can do their jobs is “the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard.”'
Don't kill your darlings, put them in the dead pool
Here is some (book) writing pedantry for business book writing.
Of course, the way to write anything is to “just start writing.” For some people, this works. For most, the question is, “yes, but how ‘just start writing’?”
That is, how do you start with a blank screen/blank sheet of paper?
For me, I start typing into the screen like I was talking to someone, complete with things like “you know,” and “like,” and especially, “I mean…” Don’t write like you would write, write like you would talk.
Accelerating Enterprise Application Upgrades Through Legacy Dependency Migration: Spring Application Advisor 1.4 - Upgrading software is sort of a boring topic. But, when we talk about this with customers, they get more excited than talking about AI. I shit you not. Just upgrading your ancient Java versions (as in this product release) is a huge problem. And, if you want to do all that fancy new AI stuff, you need the newer versions of your framework and stack. Our recent survey gives off this vibe too: organizations that spend more time on “modernization” have more success with AI projects.