Random thought: it was 30 years ago that Microsoft revealed Windows 95. During that time, the internet was just beginning to pick up steam and PC manufacturers were quick to add an Internet button to the keyboard. Looking at my new laptop, the internet button is the AI button. Coincidence?

In addition to adjusting to a new life, I've been teasing out a new offering to match the new world of AI. If you or someone you know is launching something built on vibe coding and want to make sure it doesn't blow up, I'd love to chat via DM or go to www.atelier-solutions.com/vibes

First personal blog post in a while. At some point, I'll get around to rigging up the old publishing mechanism and update it for BlueSky. For now: www.cabnetworks.net/~cab/blog/20...

/3 You have to have the prior generation to discover and build the new abstractions. It isn't like serverless functions existed in the 1970s when mainframes were king.

/2 That was the new SVP of Engineering for CoreWeave (Chen Goldberg formerly of Google Cloud) to Runtime on why current cloud infra cannot handle AI. I am floored at how little history is remembered. The progression is bare metal systems -> VMs like Xen/VMware -> Cloud PaaS -> magical services.

/1: "Traditional cloud computing infrastructure was based around the virtual machine, which made total sense at the time since so many applications had already been built around VMware's groundbreaking hypervisor and IT departments were familiar with the architecture."

Interesting take on what it takes to be a good thinker from the FT. One of the items that I still cling to (other than reading) is being multi-disciplinary/generalist: the exact opposite thing promoted in industry and academia. Wonder why. www.ft.com/content/c42c...

Getting back from an event in Mexico City, it dawned on me over the last couple of years about the travesty of using the e-gates. One of the exciting things about traveling abroad is the fancy visa stamp that are begging to be caught like pokemon. What will we do now?

Touching the third rail that is US politics, given the amount of change over the last month, how long before the impact is felt across the board? Not the panic in the media or random anecdotes. I’m talking services stop working or become more efficient.

I give it till this fall.

Not sure if I had shared yet, but the one thing that Bluesky reminds me of is the old company App.Net (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/App.net). Sadly too early for the times, but am glad to see parts of it live on.

Seems more frequent these days: becoming one with the squirrel bouncing between multiple things concurrently.

Cannot believe it has been 10 months since the last post here. Don't worry, it has been even longer on the platform formerly known as Twitter.

Is there a place that doesn't trigger the fear/anger buttons or isn't trying to sell you something?

Just wrapped up a 3-day consulting mastermind. Had expected a few new ideas, but not over 20. It is powerful to be in the room with others going through the same thing and providing insights with each other.

Now for the easy part and executing

If you need to provide an annual report, may as well spice it up.

If only I were in SoCal this weekend: thefridacinema.org/film/catvide...

Need more cats confident in trees.

New album drop from Milet: 5am (open.spotify.com/album/1dLcTY...). Out of the new songs, quite a bit of experimentation in style from one that reminds me of late Queen to another playing around with acoustic guitar and mic providing an analog AM feel. Still a fan.

面白い！

Tons of potential and opportunities. Can't wait to see what will be in store going forward.