macOS 26 Tahoe: The Ars Technica review - Check out the extended overview of the new Spotlight features/changes if you’re into launchers.
Most Work is Translation - by Aparna Chennapragada - ACD - This is a great metaphor: ”To me, LLMs have the potential to be the Babel fish of work, the little creature from Hitchhiker’s Guide that instantly translates whatever goes into your ear. Except here, it’s not speech alone. It’s papers into briefs, meetings into memos, data into charts, ideas into roadmaps etc.” // So much of knowledge work figuring out what the fuck people are saying and what you should do. And, on the other end, figuring out how tell people that. Using GenAI to de-BS business talk, and hopefully generate more actionable (hah!) talk would be great.
ChatGPT uses, a survey
OpenAI’s study indicates that users primarily utilize ChatGPT as an advisory tool to enhance decision-making and productivity in knowledge-intensive jobs.
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.
Why CIOs can’t afford another modernization failure in 2026 - ”Gartner estimates that up to 70% of large-scale digital transformation and modernization initiatives fail to deliver their intended outcomes. That number has hovered stubbornly high for years, but the stakes in 2026 are different.”
This is the kind of thing the Internet was made for, with that “one person can do a thing” vibe. Plus, this is the kind of music I go nuts for.
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.