The forgotten war on the Walkman - The new thing is always going to destroy civilization, or at least proper behavior.
Practical platform engineering, the industry analyst business dies again, personal utopia - three good videos
Three good videosPlatform Engineering 2025: What “great”’ looks like now.
Most platform engineering talks are very frustrating for me. The same stuff over and over since about 2015. The platform engineering space is rife with people who’ve made the monumental mistake of thinking Kubernetes is a platform and then finding out they have so much more to build on-top of that thin layer. Meanwhile, based on that false assumption, the industry just jettisoned all the PaaS technology we had.
From Knowledge to Action - For AI, now, the app is what matters most.
Why we’ve decided to decommission GOV.UK PaaS (Platform as a Service) – Government Digital Service - “It has enjoyed uptime of 99.95%, and suffered only one major incident in its 7 years. All this while tenants deployed services more than 122 times a day, made up of 3,200 applications.” // It worked well, but people didn’t want to use it. Instead: Kubernetes. It’d be cool to hear how the next three years went.
GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that’s not the worst of it. - “We have been fed a steady diet of bullshit for the last several years.” // He’s not a fan.
AI Reviews Aren't Very Good
Making AI Reviews More UsefulFrom Robert Brook, posted July, 2025.Reading all the ChatGPT 5 coverage confirms my feeling that no one knows how to review these models yet. It’s either those incomprehensible charts (and also, who cares how good they are at math? More: who understand what those tests even mean?) or people just saying “I really like it.”
It’s a classic IT/business alignment problem. Until you define the “business outcome” you want and how you can improve it, you’re vibe-ROI’ing.
Columbus, Ohio’s Revival: a Model for the Rust Belt - Update from IRL. Now, back to cyberspace.
At-Scale Management and Multi-Foundation Views with Tanzu Hub - If you’re running a platform - or platforms - inside a large organization, Tanzu’s got something for you.