we're done here
@monkchips
redmonk co-founder, sunshine in a bag, industry analyst loves developers, "motivating in a surreal kind of way". came up with "progressive delivery". he/him
daughter: i want to dress as a headless Henry VIII for halloween. me: uh, it was actually his wives that were beheaded daughter: exactly
Had just this conversation last night with a room of tech executives. Some were genuinely astounded that there are those (who they claim to want, top X, etc.) who do still have many options. If it’s someone you really want, make sure you do you all you can to entice them. Still.
Good candidates always have options. Even in a down market. Case in point: I’m working on a Front End Developer role at a large bank with a colleague. Mid-Sr level. Onsite 3x/week. NYC metro area. We submit a strong candidate. She interviews once. Feedback is great. Then the…
watch this video!
generative coding is YOLO, agentic DevOps is FAFO. redmonk.com/jgovernor/2025…
generative coding is YOLO, agentic DevOps is FAFO. redmonk.com/jgovernor/2025…
Kudos to @chainguard_dev for basically inventing the market for secure base container images. @monkchips looks at this suddenly-active space with lots of players. redmonk.com/jgovernor/2025…
The ai playbook for hyperscalers LLM —> Dev Tools —> Orchestration Launch, acquire or die
so i wrote a thing redmonk.com/jgovernor/2025…
It's a "Hot Vibe Code Summer" according to @KateHolterhoff and the @redmonk team. Who am I to argue? James has a good piece about Google and Amazon making legit efforts to be there for devs craving AI tools.
so i wrote a thing redmonk.com/jgovernor/2025…
the most successful trolls compel this sort of reasonable-in-isolation *second order* objections. how often they are able to elicit them — to generate ambivalence where direct confrontation offers none — is a good demonstration of how “online” everyone in this admin is
I understand why people find it distasteful for DHS to post this given the Trump admin’s aggressively anti-immigration stance. But I viscerally, passionately hate this response and am disgusted at its popularity. This was in fact my heritage! Almost every line of my ancestors…
Time to build
Direct retort to the “All that infrastructure China is building now looks shiny but will become prohibitively expensive to maintain” crowd.
This makes perfect sense. Completely rational.
Hear me out: what if Zuck is spending billions on a handful of key AI researchers is not irrational, but very much rational? What if Meta is set to eliminate OpenAI as a large advertising business before it can grow too large and threaten Meta? From today's @Pragmatic_Eng
☀️⚡Here comes the sun
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NEW | Solar power was the EU’s biggest power source in June 2025 ☀️ For the first time, solar ranked first among all power sources, producing 22.1% of the EU’s power ahead of nuclear at 21.8%. Coal power fell to a record low 6.1% in sixth place.
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