{"version":"https://jsonfeed.org/version/1","title":"Micro.blog - Coté","home_page_url":"https://micro.blog","feed_url":"https://micro.blog/posts/cote","_microblog":{"about":"https://micro.blog/about/api","id":"8457","username":"cote","bio":"My work is usually about how large organizations do software well, and poorly. I also make a lot of podcasts and similar nonsense. I live in Amsterdam. Texas forever!","pronouns":"","is_following":false,"is_you":false,"following_count":432,"discover_count":0},"author":{"name":"Coté","url":"http://cote.io","avatar":"https://avatars.micro.blog/avatars/2025/42/8457.jpg"},"items":[{"id":"90066850","content_html":"<p>McDonald's Geofence, Power Tools Got Worse on Purpose, and Big Things Are Trusted Less - Related to your interests, Wednesday <img src=\"https://micro.blog/photos/50/https://incomprehensiblemedia.com/uploads/2026/photo-upload-monkchips-bsky.jpg\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" class=\"mini_thumbnail\" alt=\"Crowd of conference attendees packed shoulder-to-shoulder around a booth at a tech event, with a presenter in a blue shirt at the center speaking to the audience\"><img src=\"https://micro.blog/photos/50/https://incomprehensiblemedia.com/uploads/2026/photo-upload-blackmagic-ursa.jpg\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" class=\"mini_thumbnail\" alt=\"Blackmagic URSA Cine Immersive 100G camera shown in three-quarter view, twin stereoscopic lenses on a rugged black body with timecode display, antenna, and tripod mount, on a pink-to-teal gradient background\"><img src=\"https://micro.blog/photos/50/https://incomprehensiblemedia.com/uploads/2026/photo-upload-gartner-marketing.jpg\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" class=\"mini_thumbnail\" alt=\"Bar chart titled 'Trust in Brands Among Consumers, 2023-2025' showing high trust in family (93/95/94%), locally owned businesses (90/90/88%), and small brands (86/86/87%) versus much lower trust in big brands (55/59/60%)\"> : <a href=\"https://cote.io/2026/05/13/mcdonalds-geofence-power-tools-got.html\">cote.io</a></p>","summary":"Also: AI makes marketing opaque, execs value humans less, and clown world logic.\nYou’re either left holding the bag, or pro-activity delivering “value creation”\n\nThe answer is pretty clear: TryTanzu.ai.\nRelated to your interests\n\nWhat’s New in Tanzu Platform 10.4: Powering Agentic Apps at Scale - Ni...","url":"https://cote.io/2026/05/13/mcdonalds-geofence-power-tools-got.html","date_published":"2026-05-13T07:43:16+00:00","author":{"name":"Coté","url":"http://cote.io","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F42%2F8457.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"cote"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-13 07:43","date_timestamp":1778658196,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://www.threads.com/@bushwald/post/DYRV1UjFDRt"]}},{"id":"90060029","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/manton\">@manton</a> I’d read it. You could start a “pop-up blog.”</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/cote/90060029","date_published":"2026-05-13T04:44:25+00:00","author":{"name":"Coté","url":"http://cote.io","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F42%2F8457.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"cote"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-13 04:44","date_timestamp":1778647465,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"89912921","content_html":"<p>Because it seems fancy pants and authoritative:</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The generally accepted hypothesis to explain this overuse ties back LLMs’ training and reinforcement processes. As models learn to predict language patterns, they begin to use their learned patterns to do so. However, this isn’t the only factor determining which patterns get used more often. Models like Claude and ChatGPT have an additional goal with their responses: to provide users with clarity. Em-dashes, which allow for explanatory pauses and the breaking down of complex ideas, are an ideal tool for AIs. As such, LLMs are not only introduced to more...</p>\n</blockquote> <a href=\"https://cote.io/2026/05/11/because-it-seems-fancy-pants.html\">cote.io</a>","summary":"","url":"https://cote.io/2026/05/11/because-it-seems-fancy-pants.html","date_published":"2026-05-11T08:03:02+00:00","author":{"name":"Coté","url":"http://cote.io","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F42%2F8457.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"cote"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-11 08:03","date_timestamp":1778486582,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://www.threads.com/@bushwald/post/DYMOQtzFiAQ"]}},{"id":"89912910","content_html":"<p>Tanzu's 15-Year Head Start, Max Headroom in Every Terminal, and Doctors Catch the AI Bug - Related to your interests, Monday <img src=\"https://micro.blog/photos/50/https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/3446/2026/photo-upload-commodities.jpg\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" class=\"mini_thumbnail\" alt=\"Satellite-view map of the Persian Gulf, Strait of Hormuz, and Gulf of Oman, with each body of water labeled in blue italic type\"><img src=\"https://micro.blog/photos/50/https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/3446/2026/photo-upload-max-headroom.jpg\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" class=\"mini_thumbnail\" alt=\"ASCII-art Max Headroom rendered in dotted blue characters inside a terminal window titled 'node'\"> : <a href=\"https://cote.io/2026/05/11/tanzus-year-head-start-max.html\">cote.io</a></p>","summary":"Also: Mirantis acquisition logic, and tech jobs at a 3-year high, so why the layoffs?\n\nHere’s the latest Tanzu Catsup:\n\n\"AI lets us find more vulnerabilities, faster than ever. That’s good news. You want to know what’s broken, and you want to patch it. The hard part is the volume. How do you handle ...","url":"https://cote.io/2026/05/11/tanzus-year-head-start-max.html","date_published":"2026-05-11T08:01:42+00:00","author":{"name":"Coté","url":"http://cote.io","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F42%2F8457.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"cote"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-11 08:01","date_timestamp":1778486502,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"89912909","content_html":"<p>Mythos Firefox, the AI Job Fantasy, and Oregon Red Clover - Related to your interests, Saturday <img src=\"https://micro.blog/photos/50/https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/3446/2026/photo-upload-brautigan.jpg\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" class=\"mini_thumbnail\" alt=\"Black-and-white woodcut-style illustration of a glass jar labeled 'Richard's Real Mayonnaise'\"><img src=\"https://micro.blog/photos/50/https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/3446/2026/photo-upload-astounding.jpg\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" class=\"mini_thumbnail\" alt=\"Pulp magazine cover for Astounding Science Fiction, November 1957, depicting a blue-skinned figure in goggles operating heavy machinery in a dust storm; cover story 'The Gentle Earth' by Christopher Anvil\"> : <a href=\"https://cote.io/2026/05/09/mythos-firefox-the-ai-job.html\">cote.io</a></p>","summary":"Also: opinion shows for writers, no-update weeks, and the Spinoza heresies.\n\n  \n  From: The Brautigan Library\n\nRelated to your interests\n\nPushing Local Models With Focus And Polish - Building a DIY AI stack is difficult.\nThe “AI Job Apocalypse” Is a Complete Fantasy - “The macro story is not a joble...","url":"https://cote.io/2026/05/09/mythos-firefox-the-ai-job.html","date_published":"2026-05-09T06:09:32+00:00","author":{"name":"Coté","url":"http://cote.io","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F42%2F8457.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"cote"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-09 06:09","date_timestamp":1778306972,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"89817086","content_html":"<p>Tinkerslop, Class Wartime, and Jobs Not AI Enough - Related to your interests, Friday <img src=\"https://micro.blog/photos/50/https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/3446/2026/photo-upload-astrid.jpg\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" class=\"mini_thumbnail\" alt=\"Quadrant chart titled 'The Hobby Matrix' classifying hobbies along two axes: life-adapts-to-hobby vs hobby-adapts-to-life, and other-oriented vs self-oriented\"><img src=\"https://micro.blog/photos/50/https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/3446/2026/photo-upload-topologies.jpg\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" class=\"mini_thumbnail\" alt=\"Hand-drawn diagram mapping software system topologies, with regions labeled Layered Architectures, Monolithic Systems, Plugins Family, Services Area, and Fragmented Patterns\"><img src=\"https://micro.blog/photos/50/https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/3446/2026/photo-upload-johndesk.jpg\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" class=\"mini_thumbnail\" alt=\"Home office with wood floor, tall bookshelves crowded with books, a wide wooden writing desk holding a monitor, lamp, and papers, and an Aeron-style office chair on the left\"> : <a href=\"https://cote.io/2026/05/08/tinkerslop-class-wartime-and-jobs.html\">cote.io</a></p>","summary":"Also: VCF 9.1 prefers private cloud for AI, the McGroc analyst trap, and the bank that lost the pope’s account.\n\n  \n  From: The undertow - Astrid\n\nRelated to your interests\n\nVMware Cloud Foundation 9.1 - a roundup of it all.\nBroadcom Announces VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1 - “A preview of Broadcom’s P...","url":"https://cote.io/2026/05/08/tinkerslop-class-wartime-and-jobs.html","date_published":"2026-05-08T17:23:54+00:00","author":{"name":"Coté","url":"http://cote.io","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F42%2F8457.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"cote"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-08 17:23","date_timestamp":1778261034,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"89796224","content_html":"<p>Always taste the digital transformation while you're making it: <a href=\"https://cote.io/2026/05/08/always-taste-the-digital-transformation.html\">cote.io</a></p>","summary":"\"At a large enterprise I recently worked with, the board asked the Chief Digital Transformation Officer to develop an AI adoption strategy to drive innovation, growth, and cost efficiency. His consultant of choice conducted stakeholder interviews and proposed a three-phase program scheduled to last ...","url":"https://cote.io/2026/05/08/always-taste-the-digital-transformation.html","date_published":"2026-05-08T07:31:32+00:00","author":{"name":"Coté","url":"http://cote.io","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F42%2F8457.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"cote"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-08 07:31","date_timestamp":1778225492,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://www.threads.com/@bushwald/post/DYEcUH1FCsm"]}},{"id":"89795692","content_html":"<p>History is not a story: <a href=\"https://cote.io/2026/05/08/history-is-not-a-story.html\">cote.io</a></p>","summary":"\"But how much was really done to unravel the Soviet Union by Solzhenitsyn’s three-volume narrative history of the Soviet Gulag between its publication and the end of Communism in the Soviet Union? Could the works of one author really dissolve a nation? Some might cite the election of the Polish Pope...","url":"https://cote.io/2026/05/08/history-is-not-a-story.html","date_published":"2026-05-08T07:12:19+00:00","author":{"name":"Coté","url":"http://cote.io","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F42%2F8457.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"cote"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-08 07:12","date_timestamp":1778224339,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://www.threads.com/@bushwald/post/DYEaOf8lIXK"]}},{"id":"89757633","content_html":"<p>Laws, anecdotes, and other shit people say <img src=\"https://micro.blog/photos/50/https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/3446/2026/photo-upload-oxide-llms-lazy.jpg\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" class=\"mini_thumbnail\" alt=\"Vintage Betty Crocker cake-mix print ad showing a hand holding two eggs next to a frosted layer cake. Headline: 'Betty Crocker Cake Mixes bring you that Special Homemade Goodness... BECAUSE YOU ADD THE EGGS YOURSELF.'\"> : <a href=\"https://cote.io/2026/05/07/laws-anecdotes-and-other-shit.html\">cote.io</a></p>","summary":"Betty Crocker, mid-1950s.\n\nI heard a reference the Betty Crocker “add an egg” cake-mix story recently. It is: originally, people didn’t buy the cake mix because it felt too easy and didn’t feel loving, or at least sufficiently Calvinistic; General Mills removed the egg, then people cracked one in th...","url":"https://cote.io/2026/05/07/laws-anecdotes-and-other-shit.html","date_published":"2026-05-07T10:20:43+00:00","author":{"name":"Coté","url":"http://cote.io","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F42%2F8457.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"cote"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-07 10:20","date_timestamp":1778149243,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://www.threads.com/@bushwald/post/DYCK9JZlhfV"]}},{"id":"89707819","content_html":"<p>VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1 - private cloud, private AI, enterprise-grade kubernetes <img src=\"https://micro.blog/photos/50/https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/3446/2026/photo-upload-vcf-9-1-hero.jpg\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" class=\"mini_thumbnail\" alt=\"VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1\"><img src=\"https://micro.blog/photos/50/https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/3446/2026/photo-upload-inference-location.jpg\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" class=\"mini_thumbnail\" alt=\"Where enterprises are running and planning to run AI\"> : <a href=\"https://cote.io/2026/05/06/vmware-cloud-foundation-private-cloud.html\">cote.io</a></p>","summary":"Our cousins over in VMware announced the most recent version of VMware Cloud Foundation, 9.1, yesterday. We all call this “VCF.” It’s at the center of Broadcom’s strategy to be the private cloud stack for large enterprises. You know: banks, governments, large retailers, manufactures, et. al.\n\nOur la...","url":"https://cote.io/2026/05/06/vmware-cloud-foundation-private-cloud.html","date_published":"2026-05-06T12:08:58+00:00","author":{"name":"Coté","url":"http://cote.io","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F42%2F8457.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"cote"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-06 12:08","date_timestamp":1778069338,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://www.threads.com/@bushwald/post/DX_yrvYFClO"]}},{"id":"89698487","content_html":"<p>Treat AI as a stoner: <a href=\"https://cote.io/2026/05/06/treat-ai-as-a-stoner.html\">cote.io</a></p>","summary":"The right mental model for working with an AI, according to my co-host David.\n\nIf you’ve spent any real time with an AI, you know exactly what he means. The model can do impressive work in a tight scope. Step out of that scope, or feed it more than fits, and you’re suddenly explaining the same const...","url":"https://cote.io/2026/05/06/treat-ai-as-a-stoner.html","date_published":"2026-05-06T08:59:07+00:00","author":{"name":"Coté","url":"http://cote.io","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F42%2F8457.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"cote"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-06 08:59","date_timestamp":1778057947,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"89696994","content_html":"<p>Parasocial Media, the War on Adobe, and Garbage Chairs - Related to your interests, Wednesday <img src=\"https://micro.blog/photos/50/https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/3446/2026/photo-upload-slop-me.jpg\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" class=\"mini_thumbnail\" alt=\"Surrealist AI-generated slop illustration from Otiose's 'AI Slop Me' tool\"><img src=\"https://micro.blog/photos/50/https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/3446/2026/photo-upload-recode.jpg\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" class=\"mini_thumbnail\" alt=\"Hand-illustrated card from Recode Project, recreating a vintage computer-graphics specimen card\"><img src=\"https://micro.blog/photos/50/https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/3446/2026/photo-upload-guild.jpg\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" class=\"mini_thumbnail\" alt=\"Pen-and-ink fantasy illustration of fighters and adventurers gathered at a guild hall noticeboard\"> : <a href=\"https://cote.io/2026/05/06/parasocial-media-the-war-on.html\">cote.io</a></p>","summary":"Also: Bob picks the model, AI-BOMs, $37.5M DIY platforms, and AI slop on tap.\n\n  \n  From: AI Slop Me\n\nRelated to your interests\n\n🤖 The Venture-Capital Populist - Packer’s profile of David Sacks as architect of Silicon Valley’s MAGA alliance, who delivered crypto legitimisation and AI deregulation to...","url":"https://cote.io/2026/05/06/parasocial-media-the-war-on.html","date_published":"2026-05-06T08:22:55+00:00","author":{"name":"Coté","url":"http://cote.io","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F42%2F8457.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"cote"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-06 08:22","date_timestamp":1778055775,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://www.threads.com/@bushwald/post/DX_YyCSlLjT"]}},{"id":"89695921","content_html":"<p>don't call it \"social media,\" call it \"parasocial media\": <a href=\"https://cote.io/2026/05/06/dont-call-it-social-media.html\">cote.io</a></p>","summary":"\"In 2006, most people who logged into the large platforms posted content because they were co-constructing sociable spaces to enjoy the companionship of others. In 2026, posting has waned (John, 2024); most social media users prioritize scrolling ‘amateur’ content rather than posting their own hapha...","url":"https://cote.io/2026/05/06/dont-call-it-social-media.html","date_published":"2026-05-06T07:55:11+00:00","author":{"name":"Coté","url":"http://cote.io","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F42%2F8457.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"cote"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-06 07:55","date_timestamp":1778054111,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"89631354","content_html":"<p>DIY platforms: $37.5 million, 60 people, and you're still not done: <a href=\"https://cote.io/2026/05/05/diy-platforms-million-people-and.html\">cote.io</a></p>","summary":"What it actually costs to build your own internal developer platform over five years, and why most “we’ll just build it” pitches are pricing the cheap version.\n\nSixty people and $7.5 million a year, every year, is what it costs to build and operate your own internal developer platform if you do it t...","url":"https://cote.io/2026/05/05/diy-platforms-million-people-and.html","date_published":"2026-05-05T11:12:39+00:00","author":{"name":"Coté","url":"http://cote.io","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F42%2F8457.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"cote"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-05 11:12","date_timestamp":1777979559,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://www.threads.com/@bushwald/post/DX9HhI6lnBM"]}},{"id":"89619717","content_html":"<p>Surfing taco.</p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/3446/2026/e06092960c.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\">","summary":"","url":"https://cote.io/2026/05/05/surfing-taco.html","date_published":"2026-05-05T06:40:59+00:00","author":{"name":"Coté","url":"http://cote.io","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F42%2F8457.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"cote"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-05 06:40","date_timestamp":1777963259,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://www.threads.com/@bushwald/post/DX8oJBBlOid"]}},{"id":"89619570","content_html":"<p>Philips lightbulb packaging, found in Diemen.</p>\n<div class=\"microblog_collection\">\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/3446/2026/4047bb8a2f-m.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/3446/2026/523a126664-m.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/3446/2026/df1e0467bf-m.jpg\" width=\"337\" height=\"600\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\">\n</div>","summary":"","url":"https://cote.io/2026/05/05/philips-lightbulb-packaging-found-in.html","date_published":"2026-05-05T06:35:45+00:00","author":{"name":"Coté","url":"http://cote.io","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F42%2F8457.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"cote"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-05 06:35","date_timestamp":1777962945,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"89619339","content_html":"<p>Garbage Chairs of Amsterdam.</p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/3446/2026/7dc1f3950c-m.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\">","summary":"","url":"https://cote.io/2026/05/05/garbage-chairs-of-amsterdam.html","date_published":"2026-05-05T06:31:50+00:00","author":{"name":"Coté","url":"http://cote.io","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F42%2F8457.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"cote"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-05 06:31","date_timestamp":1777962710,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://www.threads.com/@bushwald/post/DX8nD7EFs3k"]}},{"id":"89434789","content_html":"<p>Never Talk About Goblins, McDonald's AI Teammate, and the Slop Defense - Related to your interests, Friday <img src=\"https://micro.blog/photos/50/https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/3446/2026/photo-upload-spanish-napkin.jpg\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" class=\"mini_thumbnail\" alt=\"Stack of paper napkins printed with the Meson del Jamon restaurant logo from Torrenueva, Granada.\"><img src=\"https://micro.blog/photos/50/https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/3446/2026/photo-upload-dr-drang-airport.jpg\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" class=\"mini_thumbnail\" alt=\"Apple AirPort Express, the small white square base station.\"> : <a href=\"https://cote.io/2026/05/02/never-talk-about-goblins-mcdonalds.html\">cote.io</a></p>","summary":"Also: human-in-the-loop theatre, MCP-on-Go pain, and Google Translate at 20.\n\n  \n  From: The Spanish napkin\n\nRelated to your interests\n\nWhere AI Accountability Goes To Die When You Stick A ‘Human In The Loop’ And Call It ‘Governance’ - 🤖: “Stuart Lauchlan and HFS / Altimetrik’s Humans at the helm of...","url":"https://cote.io/2026/05/02/never-talk-about-goblins-mcdonalds.html","date_published":"2026-05-02T06:43:20+00:00","author":{"name":"Coté","url":"http://cote.io","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F42%2F8457.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"cote"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-02 06:43","date_timestamp":1777704200,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://www.threads.com/@bushwald/post/DX06MZDlOdK"]}},{"id":"89294356","content_html":"<p>90 minutes of hell is other people: <a href=\"https://cote.io/2026/04/30/minutes-of-hell-is-other.html\">cote.io</a></p>","summary":"This feels like me:\n\n\"NEWMARK: I guess, ideally, I would have more social skills—meaning, some.\n\nCOWEN: We’re simulating social skills just fine here.\n\nNEWMARK: That’s the phrase I use. At least on my part, what looks like social skills is just fakery. I can do it for short amounts of time, maybe 90...","url":"https://cote.io/2026/04/30/minutes-of-hell-is-other.html","date_published":"2026-04-30T06:10:44+00:00","author":{"name":"Coté","url":"http://cote.io","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F42%2F8457.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"cote"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-30 06:10","date_timestamp":1777529444,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://www.threads.com/@bushwald/post/DXvtLu6FHsk"]}},{"id":"89244456","content_html":"<p>Pre-Idea Funding, the Stolen-Valor Chore Coat, and Doom-Scrolling Pre-GitHub - Related to your interests, Wednesday <img src=\"https://micro.blog/photos/50/https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/3446/2026/photo-upload-monkigras.jpg\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" class=\"mini_thumbnail\" alt=\"A crowd at Monkigras 2026 - small developer conference - listening to a speaker.\"><img src=\"https://micro.blog/photos/50/https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/3446/2026/photo-upload-forrester-roi.jpg\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" class=\"mini_thumbnail\" alt=\"Forrester AI Value Matrix: a two-axis chart plotting AI value against measurement, used as a framework for assessing AI ROI.\"><img src=\"https://micro.blog/photos/50/https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/3446/2026/photo-upload-santiago.jpg\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" class=\"mini_thumbnail\" alt=\"Texas-Mexican accordion player Santiago Jimenez Sr. with his accordion.\"> : <a href=\"https://cote.io/2026/04/29/preidea-funding-the-stolenvalor-chore.html\">cote.io</a></p>","summary":"Also: AI’s biggest critic loses the plot, Notepad++ on Mac after 20 years, and dark modes as cosplay.\n\n  \n  From: Monkigras, 2026\n\nRelated to your interests\n\nFrom Infrastructure to Agents: A Hands-On Guide to Secure Private AI with Broadcom\nClaude Code and the rise of personal software - Low-code, e...","url":"https://cote.io/2026/04/29/preidea-funding-the-stolenvalor-chore.html","date_published":"2026-04-29T14:02:50+00:00","author":{"name":"Coté","url":"http://cote.io","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F42%2F8457.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"cote"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-29 14:02","date_timestamp":1777471370,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://www.threads.com/@bushwald/post/DXt-NhdlN4h"]}},{"id":"89244087","content_html":"\n  <img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/3446/2026/photo-upload-garbage-chairs-m.jpg\" width=\"600\" alt=\"Amsterdam street scene: a person in a blue jacket walks near two underground waste containers. Bikes parked along a railing, wisteria blooming on a building to the right, a stone block in the foreground.\" loading=\"lazy\">\n  Garbage Chairs of Amsterdam, near ARTIS, 2026\n","summary":"","url":"https://cote.io/2026/04/29/garbage-chairs-of-amsterdam-near.html","date_published":"2026-04-29T14:00:00+00:00","author":{"name":"Coté","url":"http://cote.io","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F42%2F8457.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"cote"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-29 14:00","date_timestamp":1777471200,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://www.threads.com/@bushwald/post/DXt9oXwljT1"]}},{"id":"89230637","content_html":"<p>Software Defined Talk #122: Emily Long, VCs, startups, Edera, etc. <a href=\"https://cote.io/2026/04/29/software-defined-talk-emily-long.html\">cote.io</a></p>","summary":"In this episode, Whitney and I talked with Emily Long, CEO and co-founder of Edera about their hardened container runtime - the kind you can swap in without re-platforming or kicking off yet another zero-trust migration. The pitch is basically: stop chasing detect-and-respond alerts and just fix the...","url":"https://cote.io/2026/04/29/software-defined-talk-emily-long.html","date_published":"2026-04-29T10:02:05+00:00","author":{"name":"Coté","url":"http://cote.io","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F42%2F8457.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"cote"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-29 10:02","date_timestamp":1777456925,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://www.threads.com/@bushwald/post/DXtifwhFDGn"]}},{"id":"89228792","content_html":"<p>Hard pass with a 20% registration discount <img src=\"https://micro.blog/photos/50/https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/3446/2026/photo-upload-img-1099.jpg\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" class=\"mini_thumbnail\" alt=\"Coté at the SCALE conference podium, thumbs up, in front of a slide titled 'Lessons learned from 7 years of running developer platforms.'\"><img src=\"https://micro.blog/photos/50/https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/3446/2026/the-eternal-recurrence-of-devops.jpg\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" class=\"mini_thumbnail\" alt=\"Slide titled 'Will PaaS platforms ever take off?' showing three platform screenshots labeled 2007 (Heroku), 2015 (Pivotal Cloud Foundry), and 2022 (Tanzu Application Platform), with a Kelsey Hightower tweet reading 'Kubernetes is a platform for building platforms.'\"><img src=\"https://micro.blog/photos/50/https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/3446/2026/photo-upload-dsc-2035.jpg\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" class=\"mini_thumbnail\" alt=\"Coté on stage at Devoxx, hands raised mid-gesture, in front of a busy slide of cloud-computing stack pyramids and PaaS/IaaS diagrams.\"> : <a href=\"https://cote.io/2026/04/29/hard-pass-with-a-registration.html\">cote.io</a></p>","summary":"The author at SCALE, March 2023.\n\nI've been having a terrible time getting talks accepted at conferences. Talking at conferences has, you know, been a huge part of my life for about 20 years, so this is kind of a bummer. Care to join me in some self-pity-partyingcare?\nI've got the wrong haircut\nWhat...","url":"https://cote.io/2026/04/29/hard-pass-with-a-registration.html","date_published":"2026-04-29T09:15:30+00:00","author":{"name":"Coté","url":"http://cote.io","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F42%2F8457.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"cote"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-29 09:15","date_timestamp":1777454130,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"89176622","content_html":"<p>The Jevons Audit Dividend, Spring AI in Seat 3A, and the Pelican-Astronaut-Horse - Related to your interests, Tuesday Afternoon <img src=\"https://micro.blog/photos/50/https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/3446/2026/photo-upload-why-are-you-like-this.jpg\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" class=\"mini_thumbnail\" alt=\"AI-generated absurdist scene: a brown horse rears over a panicked astronaut who rides a pelican mounted on a bicycle. A yellow road sign reads 'WHY ARE YOU LIKE THIS.' Debris - a slice of pizza, a can, a cowboy hat - flies through the air. A police car pursues in the background.\"><img src=\"https://micro.blog/photos/50/https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/3446/2026/photo-upload-parpan-work.jpg\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" class=\"mini_thumbnail\" alt=\"Stylized illustration of a darkened street at dusk: utility poles and power lines crisscross a teal-green sky with an orange sun setting behind a dark hillside. A glowing Chevron sign and scattered storefront lights dot a curving wet road, with a red-tipped traffic cone in the foreground.\"><img src=\"https://micro.blog/photos/50/https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/3446/2026/photo-upload-break-out-of-word.jpg\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" class=\"mini_thumbnail\" alt=\"Screenshot of a blank Microsoft Word document. A small black-and-white figure of a climber rappels down the page from the top toolbar, suspended on a thin rope - illustrating breaking out of the Word UI.\"> : <a href=\"https://cote.io/2026/04/28/the-jevons-audit-dividend-spring.html\">cote.io</a></p>","summary":"Also: AGENTS.md as model upgrade, Europe-as-vassal, and a Slack chatbot nobody bothers to verify\n\n  \n  From: WHY ARE YOU LIKE THIS\n\nRelated to your interests\n\nWhat We Learned Testing Frontier AI Security Models Against Our Own Code - “What we learned is that the useful mental paradigm for this techn...","url":"https://cote.io/2026/04/28/the-jevons-audit-dividend-spring.html","date_published":"2026-04-28T15:29:32+00:00","author":{"name":"Coté","url":"http://cote.io","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F42%2F8457.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"cote"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-28 15:29","date_timestamp":1777390172,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"89150092","content_html":"<p>Software Brain, the $5 Postcard Warship Hack, and Cyberpunk Dystopia - Related to your interests, Tuesday Morning: <a href=\"https://cote.io/2026/04/28/software-brain-the-postcard-warship.html\">cote.io</a></p>","summary":"Also: AI vendor lock-in, half of GenAI projects fail, tinkers vs. endpoints, and a blogroll worth keeping\nRelated to your interests\n\nMCP vs. APIs: Why You Need Both for AI Applications\nBeware Software Brain - 🤖: “The failure mode is exporting that logic to human life. The ask is no longer that compu...","url":"https://cote.io/2026/04/28/software-brain-the-postcard-warship.html","date_published":"2026-04-28T06:12:09+00:00","author":{"name":"Coté","url":"http://cote.io","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F42%2F8457.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"cote"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-28 06:12","date_timestamp":1777356729,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://www.threads.com/@bushwald/post/DXqjleElF6W"]}},{"id":"89039279","content_html":"<p>Patel: AI''s Unpopularity Isn''t a Marketing Problem, It''s \"Software Brain: <a href=\"https://cote.report/2026/04/26/patel-ais-unpopularity-isnt-a.html\">cote.report</a></p>","summary":"","url":"https://cote.report/2026/04/26/patel-ais-unpopularity-isnt-a.html","date_published":"2026-04-26T13:51:17+00:00","author":{"name":"Coté","url":"http://cote.io","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F42%2F8457.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"cote"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-26 13:51","date_timestamp":1777211477,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"85881134","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/manton\">@manton</a> congrats! You do great, helpful work.</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/cote/85881134","date_published":"2026-03-10T05:48:42+00:00","author":{"name":"Coté","url":"http://cote.io","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F42%2F8457.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"cote"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-03-10 05:48","date_timestamp":1773121722,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"83042310","content_html":"<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://micro.blog/lkanies@hachyderm.io\" class=\"u-url mention\">@lkanies</a></span> Ironically, one of the better examples of why vibe coding is a bad idea.</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/cote/83042310","date_published":"2026-01-28T08:32:25+00:00","author":{"name":"Coté","url":"http://cote.io","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F42%2F8457.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"cote"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-01-28 08:32","date_timestamp":1769589145,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"80475891","content_html":"<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://micro.blog/coldclimate@hachyderm.io\" class=\"u-url mention\">@coldclimate</a></span> that’s right.</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/cote/80475891","date_published":"2025-12-21T13:13:43+00:00","author":{"name":"Coté","url":"http://cote.io","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F42%2F8457.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"cote"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-12-21 13:13","date_timestamp":1766322823,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"80338144","content_html":"<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://micro.blog/undermanager@mastodon.social\" class=\"u-url mention\">@undermanager</a></span> this was fun. I look forward to more of Russell’s Digs.</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/cote/80338144","date_published":"2025-12-19T07:02:22+00:00","author":{"name":"Coté","url":"http://cote.io","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F42%2F8457.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"cote"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-12-19 07:02","date_timestamp":1766127742,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"80126024","content_html":"<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://micro.blog/krisbuytaert@mastodon.social\" class=\"u-url mention\">@krisbuytaert</a></span> deep pull!</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/cote/80126024","date_published":"2025-12-16T11:24:26+00:00","author":{"name":"Coté","url":"http://cote.io","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F42%2F8457.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"cote"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-12-16 11:24","date_timestamp":1765884266,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"79716133","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/robertbrook\">@robertbrook</a> Nice!</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/cote/79716133","date_published":"2025-12-10T11:30:01+00:00","author":{"name":"Coté","url":"http://cote.io","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F42%2F8457.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"cote"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-12-10 11:30","date_timestamp":1765366201,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"79396194","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/manton\">@manton</a> that would be a great combination as a consumer. One less app.</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/cote/79396194","date_published":"2025-12-05T15:15:23+00:00","author":{"name":"Coté","url":"http://cote.io","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F42%2F8457.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"cote"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-12-05 15:15","date_timestamp":1764947723,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"78934605","content_html":"<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://micro.blog/dpp@mastodon.social\" class=\"u-url mention\">@dpp</a></span> perfect. A+!</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/cote/78934605","date_published":"2025-11-28T19:32:09+00:00","author":{"name":"Coté","url":"http://cote.io","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F42%2F8457.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"cote"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-11-28 19:32","date_timestamp":1764358329,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"78907754","content_html":"<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://micro.blog/nicksilkey@hachyderm.io\" class=\"u-url mention\">@nicksilkey</a></span> I’m glad you like the smell of old PDFs :)</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/cote/78907754","date_published":"2025-11-28T12:05:59+00:00","author":{"name":"Coté","url":"http://cote.io","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F42%2F8457.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"cote"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-11-28 12:05","date_timestamp":1764331559,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"78759031","content_html":"<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://micro.blog/elsua@mastodon.social\" class=\"u-url mention\">@elsua</a></span> yeah, I’ve looked at ghost many times as a Substack replacement and their pricing is insane.</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/cote/78759031","date_published":"2025-11-26T06:32:41+00:00","author":{"name":"Coté","url":"http://cote.io","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F42%2F8457.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"cote"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-11-26 06:32","date_timestamp":1764138761,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"78717439","content_html":"<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://micro.blog/dneary@mastodon.ie\" class=\"u-url mention\">@dneary</a></span> and you don’t piss of the other players when you want talk to the town cobbler for 30 minutes about custom boots.</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/cote/78717439","date_published":"2025-11-25T16:10:09+00:00","author":{"name":"Coté","url":"http://cote.io","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F42%2F8457.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"cote"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-11-25 16:10","date_timestamp":1764087009,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"78690002","content_html":"<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://micro.blog/dneary@mastodon.ie\" class=\"u-url mention\">@dneary</a></span> it’s pretty good, but it lacks the random, “lateral thinking” you want in co-story telling. Recently, it’s gotten good at complex combat (handling, say five PCs and ten appointments). It’s always been good at “social encounters” and lore.</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/cote/78690002","date_published":"2025-11-25T06:31:19+00:00","author":{"name":"Coté","url":"http://cote.io","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F42%2F8457.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"cote"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-11-25 06:31","date_timestamp":1764052279,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"77899547","content_html":"<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://micro.blog/BPariseau@hachyderm.io\" class=\"u-url mention\">@BPariseau</a></span> good listen :)</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/cote/77899547","date_published":"2025-11-13T15:21:49+00:00","author":{"name":"Coté","url":"http://cote.io","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F42%2F8457.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"cote"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-11-13 15:21","date_timestamp":1763047309,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"77853430","content_html":"<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://micro.blog/amsterdameric@mastodon.social\" class=\"u-url mention\">@amsterdameric</a></span> Is that ramen with a steak in it?</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/cote/77853430","date_published":"2025-11-12T22:43:39+00:00","author":{"name":"Coté","url":"http://cote.io","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F42%2F8457.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"cote"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-11-12 22:43","date_timestamp":1762987419,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"77822601","content_html":"<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://micro.blog/sjvn@mastodon.social\" class=\"u-url mention\">@sjvn</a></span> my dad had so many of those, as did I.</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/cote/77822601","date_published":"2025-11-12T15:36:25+00:00","author":{"name":"Coté","url":"http://cote.io","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F42%2F8457.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"cote"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-11-12 15:36","date_timestamp":1762961785,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"77538124","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/cote\">@cote</a> Yeah, I liked the different modes in it, and being (self?) aware of the different styles you adapt per the needs and current focus.</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/cote/77538124","date_published":"2025-11-08T09:41:07+00:00","author":{"name":"Coté","url":"http://cote.io","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F42%2F8457.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"cote"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-11-08 09:41","date_timestamp":1762594867,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"76996027","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/manton\">@manton</a> it was not exactly in the survey, but I would love it if I could follow both Mastodon and Bluesky (and threads?) in the timeline.</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/cote/76996027","date_published":"2025-10-31T07:38:22+00:00","author":{"name":"Coté","url":"http://cote.io","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F42%2F8457.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"cote"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-10-31 07:38","date_timestamp":1761896302,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"76995998","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/robertbrook\">@robertbrook</a> thrilling uncharacteristic picture instead of photo. Though, maybe it is a photo of a picture. One can never tell on the Internet.</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/cote/76995998","date_published":"2025-10-31T07:37:14+00:00","author":{"name":"Coté","url":"http://cote.io","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F42%2F8457.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"cote"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-10-31 07:37","date_timestamp":1761896234,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"76857473","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/manton\">@manton</a> I miss seeing those big trees everyday.</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/cote/76857473","date_published":"2025-10-29T05:46:49+00:00","author":{"name":"Coté","url":"http://cote.io","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F42%2F8457.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"cote"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-10-29 05:46","date_timestamp":1761716809,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"76862708","content_html":"<p><a href=\"http://cote.io\">@cote.io</a> Related, of course: “The purpose of a system is what it does.” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_pur…</p>\n","url":"https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:axtdsr3h7f4mtbet7zlpt2vl/post/3m4as3rdb5c2q","date_published":"2025-10-28T11:06:53+00:00","author":{"name":"Coté","url":"http://cote.io","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F42%2F8457.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"cote"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-10-28 11:06","date_timestamp":1761649613,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"76793798","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/aaronpk\">@aaronpk</a> love that carpet.</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/cote/76793798","date_published":"2025-10-28T07:31:22+00:00","author":{"name":"Coté","url":"http://cote.io","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F42%2F8457.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"cote"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-10-28 07:31","date_timestamp":1761636682,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"76727256","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/wiggitywhitney\">@wiggitywhitney</a> I’ll have to check out that museum next time I’m there.</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/cote/76727256","date_published":"2025-10-27T10:13:02+00:00","author":{"name":"Coté","url":"http://cote.io","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F42%2F8457.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"cote"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-10-27 10:13","date_timestamp":1761559982,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"76862709","content_html":"<p><a href=\"http://cote.io\">@cote.io</a> Here’s a longer write-up and prompts (such as they are): cote.io/2025/10/25/m…</p>\n","url":"https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:axtdsr3h7f4mtbet7zlpt2vl/post/3m3ysfwupic2t","date_published":"2025-10-25T06:51:14+00:00","author":{"name":"Coté","url":"http://cote.io","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F42%2F8457.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"cote"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-10-25 06:51","date_timestamp":1761375074,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"76384612","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/wiggitywhitney\">@wiggitywhitney</a> did Claude get a good voice? :)</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/cote/76384612","date_published":"2025-10-22T17:25:13+00:00","author":{"name":"Coté","url":"http://cote.io","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F42%2F8457.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"cote"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-10-22 17:25","date_timestamp":1761153913,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}}]}