Gemma
@gemma-cto.bsky.social
Consultant CTO, runner, former musician, Norwegian / New Zealander / Brit floating between the U.K. and Scandinavia. Interested in all things finance, healthcare, ethics, economics and engineering leadership.
Omg an IPO in Oslo! This does not happen in Norway very often like the last one was back in 2021! TV production tech firm raised 200mnok.
November 17, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Omg an IPO in Oslo! This does not happen in Norway very often like the last one was back in 2021! TV production tech firm raised 200mnok.
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Just published a new article! 👇🏾
Mission, vision, purpose, BHAG. Are they useful north stars, or academic nonsense?
Many thanks for spreading the love with ❤️ and 🔁!
Mission, vision, purpose, BHAG. Are they useful north stars, or academic nonsense?
Many thanks for spreading the love with ❤️ and 🔁!
Mission, Vision, poTAYto, poTAHto
Mission, vision, purpose, BHAG. Are they useful north stars, or academic nonsense?
longform.asmartbear.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Just published a new article! 👇🏾
Mission, vision, purpose, BHAG. Are they useful north stars, or academic nonsense?
Many thanks for spreading the love with ❤️ and 🔁!
Mission, vision, purpose, BHAG. Are they useful north stars, or academic nonsense?
Many thanks for spreading the love with ❤️ and 🔁!
I realise a lot of musicians take back to the stage late in life because of their rights reversion on recorded music. But surely if you’re over 55 and had a really horrific lifestyle when you were young… isn’t it a bit risky to go on tour?
November 9, 2025 at 8:54 AM
I realise a lot of musicians take back to the stage late in life because of their rights reversion on recorded music. But surely if you’re over 55 and had a really horrific lifestyle when you were young… isn’t it a bit risky to go on tour?
I got shortlisted for a new fund! I am this level of excited about working with these people.
kermit the frog is dancing in front of a red curtain on a stage .
ALT: kermit the frog is dancing in front of a red curtain on a stage .
media.tenor.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:27 PM
I got shortlisted for a new fund! I am this level of excited about working with these people.
Back to cutting and programming this week! Start projects never to finish them it is the engineering curse.
November 5, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Back to cutting and programming this week! Start projects never to finish them it is the engineering curse.
I turned down a contract renewal the other day. I had felt consistently undervalued had to suffer disrespectful language was arrogantly told how much else everyone else was paid (a lot more than me) ignored, spent weekends clearing up after other people’s mistakes. I had enough.
October 20, 2025 at 9:07 PM
I turned down a contract renewal the other day. I had felt consistently undervalued had to suffer disrespectful language was arrogantly told how much else everyone else was paid (a lot more than me) ignored, spent weekends clearing up after other people’s mistakes. I had enough.
Ali B Cloud are now autoscaling GPU demand for model inference. Really sensible why haven’t the big American Cloud Co’s thought of this? They are swimming in the wrong direction. The Chinese will win this one in the long run.
October 20, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Ali B Cloud are now autoscaling GPU demand for model inference. Really sensible why haven’t the big American Cloud Co’s thought of this? They are swimming in the wrong direction. The Chinese will win this one in the long run.
I notice some of the big corps have upped their game the last few years worried about startups creeping in on their patch. I used Ebay for the first time in years this last week or so and omg the experience is so much better. Same with NatWest’s mobile banking. They have caught up.
October 19, 2025 at 2:32 PM
I notice some of the big corps have upped their game the last few years worried about startups creeping in on their patch. I used Ebay for the first time in years this last week or so and omg the experience is so much better. Same with NatWest’s mobile banking. They have caught up.
The US government has switched off the flow of economic data! Yikes! Then we know it’s bad but we don’t know how bad!
October 15, 2025 at 9:57 AM
The US government has switched off the flow of economic data! Yikes! Then we know it’s bad but we don’t know how bad!
Am cutting at the moment and omg I am so hungry. I might eat my notebook and part of my laptop.
October 13, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Am cutting at the moment and omg I am so hungry. I might eat my notebook and part of my laptop.
Thashed through a whole heap of tooling integration errors yesterday. Was too tired to finish. Cascading problems. Joy of coding eh?
October 11, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Thashed through a whole heap of tooling integration errors yesterday. Was too tired to finish. Cascading problems. Joy of coding eh?
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"Most elements you create during API design are wasted. If they’re not validated by stakeholders, they end up being replaced with new ideas. What if I tell you that API prototyping can be an incremental process?"
apichangelog.substack.com/p/just-in-ti...
apichangelog.substack.com/p/just-in-ti...
Just-in-Time API Prototyping
Can API prototyping be an incremental process?
apichangelog.substack.com
October 10, 2025 at 3:09 PM
"Most elements you create during API design are wasted. If they’re not validated by stakeholders, they end up being replaced with new ideas. What if I tell you that API prototyping can be an incremental process?"
apichangelog.substack.com/p/just-in-ti...
apichangelog.substack.com/p/just-in-ti...
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"We’re missing a great opportunity, as API practitioners. Why do we prefer to insist that APIs need to be something technical and complex, while everyone else seems to be going in the opposite direction?"
apichangelog.substack.com/p/who-uses-a...
apichangelog.substack.com/p/who-uses-a...
Who uses APIs?
It's time to make APIs easy to use by anyone.
apichangelog.substack.com
October 3, 2025 at 3:28 PM
"We’re missing a great opportunity, as API practitioners. Why do we prefer to insist that APIs need to be something technical and complex, while everyone else seems to be going in the opposite direction?"
apichangelog.substack.com/p/who-uses-a...
apichangelog.substack.com/p/who-uses-a...
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"Living through the rise of a dictatorship just means inhabiting a space that is gradually shrinking. There’s no point in resisting, not at first. You just make do with whatever breathing room you still have—until you lose that too."
Read Gisela Salim-Peyer:
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Read Gisela Salim-Peyer:
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Authoritarianism Feels Surprisingly Normal—Until It Doesn’t
Life in Venezuela was deceptively mundane. Then everything collapsed.
www.theatlantic.com
September 27, 2025 at 2:13 PM
"Living through the rise of a dictatorship just means inhabiting a space that is gradually shrinking. There’s no point in resisting, not at first. You just make do with whatever breathing room you still have—until you lose that too."
Read Gisela Salim-Peyer:
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Read Gisela Salim-Peyer:
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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MCP is a standard. Not a revolutionary technology. Most of what MCP is was done in langchain before MCP. But MCP made a standardized interface.
MCP (Model Context Protocol) promises a new way for LLMs to use tools.
Chris Riccomini argues it mostly reinvents OpenAPI, gRPC & CLIs.
Resources = docs
Tools = RPC
Prompts = configs
So… could MCP have just been a JSON file?
💡 More insights: www.dataengineeringw...
Chris Riccomini argues it mostly reinvents OpenAPI, gRPC & CLIs.
Resources = docs
Tools = RPC
Prompts = configs
So… could MCP have just been a JSON file?
💡 More insights: www.dataengineeringw...
September 27, 2025 at 1:02 PM
MCP is a standard. Not a revolutionary technology. Most of what MCP is was done in langchain before MCP. But MCP made a standardized interface.
Russian drones in polish airspace! Yikes! They are testing aren’t they?
September 10, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Russian drones in polish airspace! Yikes! They are testing aren’t they?
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We should have a Bluesky main character of the day that everyone is nice to, just pick someone and shower them with appreciation.
September 5, 2025 at 5:45 PM
We should have a Bluesky main character of the day that everyone is nice to, just pick someone and shower them with appreciation.
Spent the last few days planning projects and procuring new machines. Now I will probably land a load of work and not be able to progress anything… Sod’s Law isn’t it? #softwareengineering
September 6, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Spent the last few days planning projects and procuring new machines. Now I will probably land a load of work and not be able to progress anything… Sod’s Law isn’t it? #softwareengineering
Ah the Polish blueberries are in season. I’m not sure what they are doing to them over there but thank god we get the benefit of their exports. Just ate my way through a whole punnet. 😋🫐
September 6, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Ah the Polish blueberries are in season. I’m not sure what they are doing to them over there but thank god we get the benefit of their exports. Just ate my way through a whole punnet. 😋🫐
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Product/Market Fit feels like a final puzzle piece snapping into pace; everything changes.
If you’re wondering whether you have it, you don’t. It’s too obvious.
More, with data:
If you’re wondering whether you have it, you don’t. It’s too obvious.
More, with data:
Product/Market Fit (PMF): Experience & Data
Companies that achieve Product/Market Fit -- both self-funded and VC-funded -- exhibit the same prototypical metrics curves and subjective experiences.
longform.asmartbear.com
August 28, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Product/Market Fit feels like a final puzzle piece snapping into pace; everything changes.
If you’re wondering whether you have it, you don’t. It’s too obvious.
More, with data:
If you’re wondering whether you have it, you don’t. It’s too obvious.
More, with data:
How was the Cloudfare AI crawler blocking not bigger news last week?? Seems fairly significant given how big a market share they have?
July 14, 2025 at 8:04 AM
How was the Cloudfare AI crawler blocking not bigger news last week?? Seems fairly significant given how big a market share they have?
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You should start a company if you’re unreasonably compelled to do it.
You haven’t stopped obsessing for a month. If you don’t, you’ll regret it forever.
Otherwise, you won’t maintain the motivation when you run into the next few years of emotional devastation.
You haven’t stopped obsessing for a month. If you don’t, you’ll regret it forever.
Otherwise, you won’t maintain the motivation when you run into the next few years of emotional devastation.
May 26, 2025 at 3:29 AM
You should start a company if you’re unreasonably compelled to do it.
You haven’t stopped obsessing for a month. If you don’t, you’ll regret it forever.
Otherwise, you won’t maintain the motivation when you run into the next few years of emotional devastation.
You haven’t stopped obsessing for a month. If you don’t, you’ll regret it forever.
Otherwise, you won’t maintain the motivation when you run into the next few years of emotional devastation.
Am worried about the drought here. Will we have enough water? Will all the nature die?? It’s horrible.
May 14, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Am worried about the drought here. Will we have enough water? Will all the nature die?? It’s horrible.