"a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity"

Links, waste book, and two kibbeling trucks for platform engineers

My daughter’s opinion of platform engineering is “cool story, let’s go get that kibbeling.”

Relative to your interests

• Ask HN: What happens to “.io” TLD after UK gives back the Chagos Islands? - Not good.

• Users engage with only 6% of product features: Product benchmark findings - ”We found that even the best product teams are focusing on features that aren’t being used by their end users. While 6.4% of features are driving 80% of clicks, almost 94% of features are untouched and ignored.”

• Workers have AI confidence — but no training to back it up, survey shows - ”Nearly two-thirds of leaders said AI is “fully implemented” across their organizations, while only 36% of workers agreed. Additionally, 60% of leaders say they are ahead of their competitors in AI maturity, while only 46% of workers agreed.”

• YouTube takes on TikTok with longer Shorts, templates, trends, and more - Longer shorts, up to three minutes now. Now viewers can avoid watching 175 seconds of content instead of just 55.

This time you’ve gone too far, Captalism. I don’t even want to know.

Wastebook

• If this is GChat, Slack must be OGChat.

• “Creighton lives on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and he is not planning to voyage far.” Aspirations!

• The sunw dress code: “You must!”

• “What I want is trousers, that merge into shoes.” The good ol' days.

• “We used to work together at Target. He would walk around humming, singing and making weird noises. One day he quit, no one heard from him. Three years later I’m still working at Target and he’s in Amsterdam rocking this crowd. WTF.” Here.

• “It is about Family, Nature, red bricks and the charm of industrial style.” #CaroLife.

• “The Golden Ditch.” James.

• “Rewrite in process is usually found to be an excuse for not going on.” Steinbeck. // Perfection is procrastination.

• “And the Police don’t like poetry.” Rands.

Logoff

The Broken Column, Frida Kahlo, 1944. My 4.5 year old daughter has been obsessed with this picture for about three days now. She asks to look at it before bed and right away after getting home from school. She calls it “the lady in the bus crash.” And she just stares at it for a long time, asking “why” about every detail.