If you’re an AI skeptic, may I please suggest “convert this shitty pdf of my child’s school calendar into an .ics file” as a use case?

Hey San Francisco! @redmonk.com beers tomorrow (Tue Jul 21). We're meeting up at Orbit Room on Market, 7:00 to whenever we're done. :)

Fucking yikes.

I'm in San Francisco for AMD and will be hosting RedMonk beers! Tue Jul 21 - more details to come If you want to get notified when we're throwing down in your city, be sure to sign up at monksignal.com

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When you cash in your kids’ BookIt coupons and realize that you also deserve a little something for your exemplary summer reading (with a cross-realization that you have grownup money and can order what you want)

one of my specialties is sneezing after applying liquid eyeliner and ending up looking like I lost a fight with a sharpie

Gender policing hurts everyone, and there is no gender equality that excludes our trans friends.

Just FYI that some of the iPad apps use math questions as a parental control barrier to prevent kids from getting to the advanced settings, and you should be wary of your five-year old suddenly asking you "mama, what's six times eight?"

dammit, I am at 10273 Spotted Owl Ave looking for 2+ window replacements this week if only I had the correct hair color for this deal!

Trying to reconcile the advice for developers to decouple their identity from their dev tools with a Flutter community happy hour redmonk.com/rstephens/20...

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“I’m a Java dev.” “I’m a Python dev.” “I’m a React dev.” Our tool choices used to be a shorthand definition for our professional identities. Communities formed around the tools. But these old certaint...

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New on the MonkCast! JSON Schema underpins every OpenAPI spec, MCP tool, and LLM structured output, but mostly nobody talks about it. Come listen to Juan Cruz Viotti as we chat about the power that comes from caring about a technology layer everyone else is ignoring.

our application to the animal rescue said "our house is already baby proofed" with such confidence. alas...

so I know that it's just automated marketing. I know it is completely impersonal. I know they are playing me. but I still like it when my dentist, eye doctor, and former mortgage broker wish me a happy birthday.

There was a moment during this video production where we thought we wouldn't have access to @kateholterhoff.com's picture with Weezer. I made this masterpiece as a placeholder, and I think it's pretty good. But you should probably watch the video and see the real one.

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Hear @monkchips.com & @kateholterhoff.com share their takeaways from #GoogleCloudNext 2026 in Las Vegas. The conversation covers multi-agent orchestration, highlighted by Google's Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform & cross-cloud data connectivity via Iceberg redmonk.com/videos/qt-go...

as someone who has battled with the model to try to get it to stop saying 'goblins' I feel somewhat vindicated reading this also... cc/ @quinnypig.com

Jeni Tennison@jenitennison.com · 3mo ago

I don't know whether to laugh or cry. This will be the tip of a much harder to quantify iceberg. openai.com/index/where-...

I recently filmed a MonkCast episode with Audrey Bian from Broadcom. She explained the features of the latest VKS 3.6 release and talked me through how the platform benefits various roles in the enterprise. Check out the full episode (with visuals!) here: redmonk.com/videos/vks-a...

I recorded a delightful conversation with Jay Thontakudi, talking about how developers and platform teams can benefit from VMware's partnership with Canonical

I truly truly can't wait for the edition of @matt-levine.bsky.social 's Money Stuff that will cover this ir.allbirds.com/news-release...

"I'm just calling to see what the Senator is doing today to prevent war crimes?" is not a phone call I had ever planned to make.

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The world feels particularly cruel right now so I want to say this again with my full chest. To the amazing transgender people I know and love (and all those I haven't met yet): you make the world better. Thank you for being you in an increasingly hostile world. We are so lucky to have you. 🏳️‍⚧️💕

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To the transgender people I know and love, the colleagues, friends & neighbors I am grateful to have in my community, and the brave generation of kids being themselves in an unfairly hostile world: You make the world better. 🏳️‍⚧️💕 I’ll do all I can to make the world better for you, too.

Using this opportunity to talk about my really cool clock again

Doug Mack@douglasmack.bsky.social · 4mo ago

introducing a bill requiring all students to learn how to make the cool S

Come hang out with @kateholterhoff.com and me while we livestream with @darko.rup12.net We're live at 9:30 Pacific! www.twitch.tv/kirodotdev

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CHEESE MOUNTAIN!

Lily Lachance@lilylachance.bsky.social · 5mo ago

A system always includes the mental model of the people using it, the people, the tools, and the dialogue. Numbers are scary because they change how the world affects people. Show your working Be correctable, not just correct Extent existing mental models Design for safe failure

Double-entry accounting as observability and verifiability for money is a sensational parallel. “Don’t just be correct - be correctable.” @ashley.rolfmore.com #monkigras

kicking off #monkigras with @monkchips.com! (this year’s conference is about preparedness, with a decidedly RedMonk amount of chaos mixed in)

I love that @nathenharvey.bsky.social is making sure we all have enough fucks to give

Spice Labs is giving away tastes of its Post Quantum Cryptography discovery and inventory tools Get PQC compliance information on post-build artifacts (CBOM, static call analysis, runtime call analysis) as well as a crypto-agility rating without burdening eng www.einpresswire.com/article/9000...