It's one of my daughter's birthday this weekend, she's 9. The days go by!

7 Interviews

At VMware Explore last week, Alex Williams and I did seven interviews. They were actually a presentation and then an interview. Check them out!

Promo!

First, I'm hosting a panel talk this week, online, with three people - we'll be discussing the use of metrics for all that digital transformation, software development, DevOps stuff. Based on our conversations ahead of time, this will be a fun, useful talk. You should register for it. YES. IT IS A "WEBINAR." Watch live or the recording. The part I'm looking forward to it how metrics effect people, good and bad. (Or is it "affect"? English really needs to short it's shit out with respect to "effect" and "affect." Seriously. Who has time for that, and who does it help? English is great in that we can all just decide to change it by speaking and writing it a different way. There is no grand council of English, it is just us, the people who speak it, who decide.) Anyhow, check out the panel, I am looking forward to it.

ANYWAY.

ALSO.

Our big developer and cloud conference, SpringOne is coming up December 6th and 8th, in San Francisco. The talks aren’t published yet, but there’s plenty of good ones.

You can get $200 off when registering if you use to code COTE200.

Notebook

• 'It is design for both 14" and 16" Macbook Pro 2021/2022.'
• Headless Optimization Gone Amuck.
• Free dad wisdom for the weekend: when a container is used as a container for other containers it cannot be used as a container for things other than containers.
• "PHENOMENA, TRENDS AND BUSINESS MODELS SHAPING DIGITAL BUSINESS STRATEGIES" - Google Translate of a talk title I'm giving in Warsaw.
• "No one is here for me" is a phrase that can mean two different things. No one is here to take care of me or no one is here because of me, to see me.
• "Calcium chew."
• Free dad wisdom for the weekend: when a container is used as a container for other containers it cannot be used as a container for things other than containers.
• "Can I talk about my Rolodex?"
• If you must pay attention to and engage with someone on a topic you don’t care about, pretend you’re interviewing them - mostly listen, signal by agreeing with them, and ask occasional questions. Just forget to write down any notes. While there was no content created, at least you’ll practice “listening” which will be handy when something interesting comes along.
• "I was not a child of divorce when I was a young child." Merlin, recdiffs, #190.
• falderal - “1 : a useless ornament or accessory : TRIFLE. 2 : NONSENSE”

New ideas

From the Kliko.nl ideas page, text translated by Google Translate.

Content from me

• Software Defined Talk #376 - “Businesses that use computers” - This week we discuss Japan’s “war” on floppy disks, Twitter adds an edit button and Apple going all-in on eSIM. Plus, will the U.S. finally get instant bank transfers?

"beardless boys in ties"

From “The Spy Who Liked Me: On the set with Richard Burton and Martin Ritt,” John le Carré, August, 2013:

In the Connaught’s dining room, a strict dress code ruled. But by 1963 the Grill had learned, somewhat grudgingly, to stretch a point. Hunched in a corner of the Grill and flanked by four hoary cohorts from the film industry, Martin Ritt, seventeen years and several centuries my senior, wore a revolutionist’s black shirt buttoned to the neck and a pair of baggy pants held up by elastic and nipped at the ankles. And, of all extraordinary things, to my eye, an artisan’s flat cap with the peak turned up where it should have been turned down. But worn indoors, you understand, which in my diplomatic England of those days was about as acceptable as eating peas off a knife. And all this on the bearish frame of an old footballer run to fat, with a broad, bronzed, Middle European face etched with the pain of ages, and thick, swept-back, graying hair, and pitch-dark, watchful eyes and black-rimmed spectacles.

And:

In the making of every film of my work—or in the non-making—there has been the First Flush, followed by the Big Unexplained Silence. This can last anything from a few months to several years, or forever. Is the project dead in the water, or is it steaming forward and nobody’s told me? Safe from the gaze of the unwashed, huge sums of money are being bandied about, scripts are commissioned, written, and rejected, agents joust and lie. In sealed rooms, beardless boys in ties strive to outshine each other with gems of youthful creativity. But outside the walls of Camp Hollywood hard intelligence is impossible to come by: for the good reason that, in the immortal words of William Goldman, nobody knows anything.

Engineering

From the Kenwood TYPE FDM31 manual.

Relevant to your interests

• History of Bovril.
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• Your Career Is Just One-Eighth of Your Life
• How to Cast a Metal Lizard - “No documents, no history."
• The Long Reign of Belgian Mayonnaise: Belgium and The King of Sauce - related: a recipe thereof.

End Note

I have a trip to Warsaw this week, which I have not been to for awhile. A webinar too