Platform Plumbing, AI Ads That Work (But People Hate), and D&D Characters Drawn by Robots

Plus, more strange and fun finds from the World Wide Web

Dec 19, 2025 • Coté

Platforms, Agents, Anxiety, and Ice Cream

Enterprise AI realities, platform product thinking, NL housing stress, Oracle’s bind, therapy-speak backlash, the politics of global ice cream, and more…

Dec 15, 2025 • Coté

Vibes, Code, Consequences

Coding assistants, what a platform is, D&D with AI, agile artifacts, 20.5m developers, stylometry riffs, and Amsterdam’s discarded seating. Also, an XDG…

Dec 2, 2025 • Coté

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November 2025

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…

Nov 12, 2025 • Coté

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Good Management Is a Fad, Use Women's Razors, and AI Saves Three Hours a Week

Also: Corn, Goats, and ChatGPT's Million Customers // Fun and strange finds from the World Wide Web.

Nov 8, 2025 • Coté

Links and original content

Fun and strange finds from the World Wide Web. Plus, several longer pieces and two podcasts I've done since last time.

Nov 3, 2025 • Coté

October 2025

Tuesday Links and Wastebook

So many links, so much time.

Oct 28, 2025 • Coté

Cloud Foundry

Raise your eyes from CaaS, and quench your thirst with PaaS // Plus, a backlog of fun and strange finds from the World Wide Web

Oct 21, 2025 • Coté

Is morally OK to think that AI generate people are shit?

How to make eSIM and buy vs. build PaaS ads with Sora - from B2C to B2B to B2WTF.

Oct 10, 2025 • Coté

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Would you like to hug a cow?

Also, fun and strange finds from the World Wide Web

Oct 1, 2025 • Coté

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September 2025

Running your AI in your own private cloud

An overview of one option, tips from someone who did it. // Plus, fun and strange finds from the World Wide Web

Sep 29, 2025 • Coté

Everybody talks about digital transformation, but nobody does anything about it.

And my new talk on platform engineering and AI. // Also, fun and strange finds from the World Wide Web

Sep 28, 2025 • Coté

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