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This week, @brandonwhichard.com, @cote.io and @mattray.dev discuss Facebook scams, engineering management trends, and the past and present of curl. Plus, when’s the right time to put up the Christmas tree?
https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/546
https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/546
The cURLing Test
This week, we discuss Facebook scams, engineering management trends, and the past and present of curl. Plus, when’s the right time to put up the Christmas tree?
www.softwaredefinedtalk.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:11 PM
This week, @brandonwhichard.com, @cote.io and @mattray.dev discuss Facebook scams, engineering management trends, and the past and present of curl. Plus, when’s the right time to put up the Christmas tree?
https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/546
https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/546
My daughter's swim school has a (brown) bar connected to it that has panoramic windows looking into the pool. It's not number one, but this is very high up on the list of "Most Dutch Thing Ever."
November 14, 2025 at 2:59 PM
My daughter's swim school has a (brown) bar connected to it that has panoramic windows looking into the pool. It's not number one, but this is very high up on the list of "Most Dutch Thing Ever."
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We sent out the first batch of talk acceptance mails today ... but there's more to come. And you can still submit a talk for a couple of days.
November 12, 2025 at 5:59 PM
We sent out the first batch of talk acceptance mails today ... but there's more to come. And you can still submit a talk for a couple of days.
This feels like the perfect @ianbetteridge.com law of headlines example. futurumgroup.com/insights/wil...
Will Asana’s Teammates Drive Better Collaboration Between Humans and AI Agents?
Asana’s Work Innovation Summit focused on new product announcements incorporating AI and AI agents that are designed to augment human workers.
futurumgroup.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:22 PM
This feels like the perfect @ianbetteridge.com law of headlines example. futurumgroup.com/insights/wil...
The Potato, the Spreadsheet, and the AI That Checks Its Own Work // my newsletter episode for today: newsletter.cote.io/p/the-potato...
The Potato, the Spreadsheet, and the AI That Checks Its Own Work
From Kubernetes theology to AI-using lawyers and spreadsheet-based worldviews, and other ways to automate yourself into absurdity. // Plus, more fun and strange finds from the World Wide Web
newsletter.cote.io
November 12, 2025 at 10:36 AM
The Potato, the Spreadsheet, and the AI That Checks Its Own Work // my newsletter episode for today: newsletter.cote.io/p/the-potato...
You're not Facebook. Why use their tools? https://okayfail.com/garden/youre-not-facebook-why-use-their-tools.html
November 12, 2025 at 10:27 AM
You're not Facebook. Why use their tools? https://okayfail.com/garden/youre-not-facebook-why-use-their-tools.html
"The one who tribalized every issue found a ready-made community that validated every prior. Etc, etc. The incentive gradient was clear: sanity was expensive, and extremism paid dividends." https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/how-to-stay-sane-in-a-world-that-rewards-insanity
November 12, 2025 at 10:25 AM
"The one who tribalized every issue found a ready-made community that validated every prior. Etc, etc. The incentive gradient was clear: sanity was expensive, and extremism paid dividends." https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/how-to-stay-sane-in-a-world-that-rewards-insanity
Now, enterprises need to find the AI apps. https://www.infoworld.com/article/4087007/ai-is-all-about-inference-now.html
November 12, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Now, enterprises need to find the AI apps. https://www.infoworld.com/article/4087007/ai-is-all-about-inference-now.html
In a tense situation, take a moment to say out loud your opponents position, feeling, and perspective. This is like setting up context and prompting for an AI. https://www.themarginalian.org/2025/11/11/carl-rogers-communication-breakdowns/
November 12, 2025 at 10:21 AM
In a tense situation, take a moment to say out loud your opponents position, feeling, and perspective. This is like setting up context and prompting for an AI. https://www.themarginalian.org/2025/11/11/carl-rogers-communication-breakdowns/
AI uses at banks, private AI and customer built AI apps - skills and regulations are the friction for wider adoption - cote.io/2025/11/12/a...
AI uses at banks, private AI and customer built AI apps - skills and regulations are the friction for wider adoption
The most common use case for agentic AI is customer service, …
cote.io
November 12, 2025 at 10:20 AM
AI uses at banks, private AI and customer built AI apps - skills and regulations are the friction for wider adoption - cote.io/2025/11/12/a...
Trente Glorieuses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trente_Glorieuses
November 12, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Trente Glorieuses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trente_Glorieuses
Feels a little bit like a platform standard so powerful that you need an AI front-end to make it usable by mere mortals. https://thenewstack.io/kubernetes-and-ai-are-shaping-the-next-generation-of-platforms/
November 12, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Feels a little bit like a platform standard so powerful that you need an AI front-end to make it usable by mere mortals. https://thenewstack.io/kubernetes-and-ai-are-shaping-the-next-generation-of-platforms/
The ultimate bike-shedding story https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/11/the-mac-calculators-original-design-came-from-letting-steve-jobs-play-with-sliders-for-ten-minutes/
November 12, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Some of the risks of having AIs write codes and AIso check code, "recursive AI security loops." There's also some advice about what to do: blogs.vmware.com/tanzu/shifti...
Shifting Security Left with AI — Is It Truly AI-Assisted Security, or an Infinite Loop?
A recent survey of more than 23,000 developers found that nearly half (49%) are now using AI regularly for coding and other development-related tasks. Among those developers, 73% report saving up to f...
blogs.vmware.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Some of the risks of having AIs write codes and AIso check code, "recursive AI security loops." There's also some advice about what to do: blogs.vmware.com/tanzu/shifti...
”In software development, we have 18,000 developers at the company that use coding agents today to optimize our development process,” https://www.ciodive.com/news/bank-of-america-AI-agents-strategy-compliance/805178/
November 11, 2025 at 12:01 PM
”In software development, we have 18,000 developers at the company that use coding agents today to optimize our development process,” https://www.ciodive.com/news/bank-of-america-AI-agents-strategy-compliance/805178/
At this point this feels like what it's showing is that the amount of work needed to do law is crushing and unreasonable. And/or that the potential for profit is so high that taking stupid risks is worth it. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/business/lawyers-ai-vigilantes.html
November 11, 2025 at 12:00 PM
At this point this feels like what it's showing is that the amount of work needed to do law is crushing and unreasonable. And/or that the potential for profit is so high that taking stupid risks is worth it. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/business/lawyers-ai-vigilantes.html
"I just need to survive this next meeting" - when it's a bad mindset, and when it's a good one: cote.io/2025/11/10/s...
Survive the next meeting
This is a mode I catch myself in where all I’m focused …
cote.io
November 10, 2025 at 12:34 PM
"I just need to survive this next meeting" - when it's a bad mindset, and when it's a good one: cote.io/2025/11/10/s...
"Outside sad is better than inside sad." https://anniemueller.com/posts/outside-sad-is-better-than-inside-sad
November 10, 2025 at 6:38 AM
"Outside sad is better than inside sad." https://anniemueller.com/posts/outside-sad-is-better-than-inside-sad
You can probably do it with a spreadsheet. https://ben-mini.com/2025/everything-is-a-spreadsheet
November 10, 2025 at 6:36 AM
You can probably do it with a spreadsheet. https://ben-mini.com/2025/everything-is-a-spreadsheet
weekly retro #40 https://livelaugh.blog/posts/weekly-retro-40/
November 10, 2025 at 6:35 AM
weekly retro #40 https://livelaugh.blog/posts/weekly-retro-40/
The core IT spending is now projected to hit $3.45 trillion, an incremental $59.8 billion in spending and representing a 12.5 percent growth over the $3.06 trillion in core IT spending in 2024 https://www.itjungle.com/2025/11/10/gartner-raises-2025-it-spending-forecast-puts-out-2026-prediction/
November 10, 2025 at 6:32 AM
The core IT spending is now projected to hit $3.45 trillion, an incremental $59.8 billion in spending and representing a 12.5 percent growth over the $3.06 trillion in core IT spending in 2024 https://www.itjungle.com/2025/11/10/gartner-raises-2025-it-spending-forecast-puts-out-2026-prediction/
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🚀Excited to share Spring AI 1.1.0-RC1 is available now. This includes OpenAI reasoning support, MongoDB chat memory, Ollama “thinking” mode, event-driven caching updates for MCP tools, bug fixes and other enhancements. Try it out as we get closer to GA -> spring.io/blog/2025/11...
Spring AI 1.1.0-RC1 Available Now
Level up your Java code and explore what Spring can do for you.
spring.io
November 9, 2025 at 12:16 AM
🚀Excited to share Spring AI 1.1.0-RC1 is available now. This includes OpenAI reasoning support, MongoDB chat memory, Ollama “thinking” mode, event-driven caching updates for MCP tools, bug fixes and other enhancements. Try it out as we get closer to GA -> spring.io/blog/2025/11...