This was a fun episode:

There's been a lot of talk about controlling cloud costs by bringing workloads back to the datacenter, you know, private cloud. The three of us discuss what's going on here. Also, surveys consistently show that only about half of developers are doing continuous integration (CI), and fewer are doing continuous delivery (CD). Can that be real? Ben doesn't think so. We also discuss how secure software supply chain thinking might change the tight coupling between CI/CD, making that slash back into a wall between the two: CI|CD. Also, Ben reveals his cartography background.

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The Link Gourmand: Klint Finley

You like links, I like links, they like links! In this episode, Klint Finley tells us how he finds links. He’s been a reporter, editor, all that at many places over the years from ReadWriteWeb, Tech Crunch, The New Stack, Wired, and now GitHub ReadME. I look forward to his email newsletter, it has much the same format and weird mix of tech and other stuff. Plus occasional updates from the Pacific Northwest. What’s fun about following Klint over the years is that he’s one of the people who’ll be like “I need to chill out for awhile, see y’all later, mofo’s!” You know: that’s comforting for all us sinners. Like many fellow link gourmands, you can see that he spends lot of effort getting all the nonsense out how feeds and channels and that finding things has gotten more difficult. It’s the first mention of Google News that I’ve come across!

How I find links and information has changed drastically over the past few years and even more so over the last few months. I've more or less cut myself off from Twitter (for now at least) and I've been weaning myself off social media in general, though I've recently started using LinkedIn more. So far though it's been more of a place for me to share links than to discover them.

Another big change is that, like a lot of other people, I'm finding search engines less and less helpful. These days I find the best way to find what I'm looking for is usually to do Google "site:" search on specific sources (including Reddit of course). Looking at the references section of Wikipedia entries is still a great research strategy as well. The importance of trusted sources and general knowledge of where to look for different types of information is more important than ever. Spontaneous discovery of interesting, high-quality content is a lot less common for me now, sadly.

Over the last few years, I've shifted toward podcasts as my main source of news, analysis, and information. It reduces the amount of doom-scrolling I do. But listening to podcasts has sort of devalued the currency of the link for me. I do still read a lot, though. I try to prioritize favored (often paid) publications over grazing for links in social streams: The Washington Post, Financial Times, The Oregonian, Oregon Public Broadcasting, Portland Mercury, KGW, The Register, The Verge, Crime Reads, Comics Beat. That said, I do look at Google News a lot, even though the amount of clickbait it feeds me is frustrating. It's useful for flagging album releases and other scattered cultural updates based on my past searches. And, for better or worse, I try to keep up with Hacker News, and Lobste.rs. My favorite link aggregator thingy, though, is Metafilter. Still relevant after all these years.

Wastebook

I gotta stop watching zombie shows that don’t actually have zombies in them.
I think we can all agree that that first scene with the seven dwarfs (we dig, dig, dig, dig and high-ho) is the best part of the movie.
What I really get frustrated about is thinking in the morning about three things I want to work that day and then getting distracted by other things.
I care a great deal about that, I just don’t have time to do anything about it.
"Salad Chain That Thought It Was a Tech Firm Looks Wilted. Headline.
I don’t think YouTube Podcasts has an RSS feed. So…not actually podcast. It’s like saying “this TV show is a radio show.” Listeners: “Alright, I’ve got my car radio here: what station to do I tune into?”
When consumer-capitalism goes too far.
“Burn Down the Patriarchy With this Eggplant Emoji Candle.”

Speak at SpringOne!

SpringOne @SpringOne

Calling all Spring Experts! 📢 If you have a software story to share with the community at VMware Explore, we’d love to hear it. The CFP is now open for SpringOne@Explore through March 31: ow.ly/mImB50N7wPo

I’ve worked on the agenda for the SpringOne conference, spoken at it, and done plenty of other work over the past eight years. It’s a great conference, especially if you’re in the Java, kubernetes, and cloud communities. It’s alongside VMware’s annual conference this year which means there’ll be even more interesting people to meet, events and hallway cons, and all the rest. The CFP is now open: you should submit something!

Relevant to your interests

Imagine What These Women Could’ve Done if They’d Had Wives
I didn’t read all of this because I’ve only had two cups of coffee. It seems like there’s an important idea going on here: do we use kubernetes (1) just as an infrastructure/API to infrastructure, allowing the underlying IaaS stuff to leak through, or, do you (2) use it as an abstraction layer so you can ignore the IaaS. If you do (1), you have Adam Jacob’s 200% knowledge problem (you have to understand both layers), and, (2) this seems like what “we” want and expect from kubernetes, but it never wants to actually do it (hence my joke about always saying “oh, I thought kubernetes already did that!”).
How can I save a ChatGPT session? - Ask ChatGPT to dump context that it can then use again.
How To Build A Blog Without Social Media - “I am also not using social media, and don’t intend to. If Twitter in 2018 didn’t hold any pleasure for me, Masto and Post aren’t going to get me in 2023.”
How artists see - “artists’ eyes tended to scan the whole picture, including apparently empty expanses of ocean or sky, while the nonartists focused in on objects, especially people. Nonartists spent about 40 percent of the time looking at objects, while artists focused on them 20 percent of the time.”
How layoffs can have negative long-term consequences for companies - Reduced Productivity, Lower Quality Work, Negative Reputation, Reduced Innovation.

One of the Best

One of my co-workers has “moved on” as they say to some other job. Anthony Barkley was always fun to work with: he was so happy and full of joy about the work. Before I started at Pivotal (now VMware) I never got to know sales people that much - now I know a lot of them and more of what they do. Anthony was one of the first that I started working with regularly and in addition to that joy, I figured out a lot about what sales is from watching him. Anyhow, I mean, check out this belief and dedication to the job:

It’ll be fun to see the next license plate.

This Weekend @ SCaLE and DevOpsDays LA

This weekend I’ll be at SCaLE and DevOpsDays LA, speaking at SCaLE and recording a live session of Software Defined Talk. The live recording is on Saturday at noon somewhere in the convention center. I’m trying to get John Willis to join Matt Ray and I - we’ll see!

I’m still working on putting together a Software Defined Talk meetup. I’m shooting for Saturday night after my talk (so, around 8pm or so). I just emailed a nearby place to try to reserve a table for, like ten.

Check in and I’ll be sure to email out the details for the live recording and, if it happens, the meetup.

If you haven’t registered for those conferences yet, you can use the code SPEAK to get 50% off tickets! It’ll get you into four conferences including SCaLE itself and DevOpsDays LA.

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I now have enough confirmed speaking engagements this year that I should start listing them here. I’ll get around to it. The one I’m most excited about is giving a keynote at one of the upcoming DevOpDays. They’ve kindly asked me to come and just talk about whatever. It’ll be a good chance to dump out how I think things are going and how I think things can go - a regular Bruce Sterling type talk.

🎧 📈📉👨‍💻Cloud Repatriation and Low CI/CD…