Month: June 2023

Happy Bloomsday! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloomsday

A fairly sensible take on AI stuff from dxw https://www.dxw.com/2023/06/artificial-intelligence-is-here-what-do-i-need-to-know/

Can’t work out if this is a good idea or not https://www.beeper.com/

"Every life is many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-law. But always meeting ourselves."
― James Joyce, Ulysses

"Strive for alignment rather than aiming for universal agreement" https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/strive-alignment-rather-than-aiming-universal-robert-musekiwa

"Multi-Cloud, Still an Actual Thing after All These Years" https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/blog/state-of-kubernetes-2023-multi-cloud

"Proven Practices for Developing a Multicloud Strategy" https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/enterprise-strategy/proven-practices-for-developing-a-multicloud-strategy/

(Those last two both via Coté https://social.lol/@cote)

Am enjoying Spellcaster, a podcast about crypto-bozo Sam Bankman-Fried and his FTX disaster zone https://wondery.com/shows/spellcaster/ (I don’t necessarily understand it all but I feel better for having read it)

"Some blogging myths" https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/06/05/some-blogging-myths/

I published a thing on LinkedIn about why councils (etc) should take digital culture and skills seriously, if they want their transformation projects to succeed: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-culture-skills-make-digital-magic-happen-dave-briggs

"The next phase of technology-driven transformation is data. Are you ready to set your strategy?" https://www.bepivotl.com/insights/the-next-phase-of-technology-driven-transformation-is-data-are-you-ready-to-set-your-strategy/

So Lemmy is basically Redditodon? https://join-lemmy.org/

I don’t do so well in this heat.

I’m really enjoying an Apple Music playlist, Living the Library – fairly quiet, mostly instrumental ‘electronic’ music. Good to work to.

Interesting point made by Brandon on Software Defined Talk, that I hadn’t really thought about before. The advantage of distributed networks like Mastodon for organisations is the ability to host a server and control who has accounts on that server. So rather than (say) BBC employees going through a verification process to prove who they are, like on Twitter in days gone by, instead they just have an account on the official BBC Mastodon. Bit like having a bbc.co.uk email address. Makes sense. https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/414

Neville Hobson shares his thoughts on Bluesky, an invite only Twitter clone https://www.nevillehobson.com/2023/06/06/early-days-experiences-on-bluesky/

Some really interesting jobs going in Birmingham, to embed digital culture and capabilities into the team https://jobs.digitalbirmingham.org/culture-capability/

"Communities of Practice within and across organizations: a guidebook" https://www.wenger-trayner.com/cop-guidebook/

Busy couple of days, hence no notes until today.

"Are.na is a platform for connecting ideas and building knowledge" https://www.are.na/ via Coté.

"Inside Snopes: the rise, fall, and rebirth of an internet icon" https://www.fastcompany.com/90901113/inside-snopes-the-rise-fall-and-rebirth-of-an-internet-icon

Emily Webber has published The Team Onion Book, which describes "a model to keep teams small, break down silos and create shared responsibility across team boundaries" https://teamonion.works/buy-the-book/

"Is web3 bullshit?" (yep) https://blog.mollywhite.net/is-web3-bullshit/