I wrote up a reflection about revamping @redmonk.com's podcast, the MonkCast. If you've been curious about the MonkCast's history and inspiration, or why it's just so good, wonder no more! redmonk.com/kholterhoff/...

🎙️ @kateholterhoff.com is speaking at #StirTrek2026! "The Vibe Analyst's Guide to AI Coding: From Autocomplete to Agent Orchestration" 📅 1 May 2026 10:30 AM 🎟️ events.humanitix.com/stir-trek-20... We're really looking forward to having Kate at Stir Trek this year!

Chatted w Mike Basios, CTO & Co-Founder of @turintech.bsky.social, for @redmonk.com's MonkCast. We discuss what it means to reduce engineering problems to a measurable function, & why that unlocks a fundamentally different optimization paradigm redmonk.com/videos/mike-... youtube.com/shorts/cyO-q...

Hear @kateholterhoff.com & Mike Basios, CTO & Co-Founder of @turintech.bsky.social, discuss the problems #AI is introducing for eng orgs, & what happens when you treat your entire stack as measurable artifacts that can be systematically validated & continuously improved. redmonk.com/videos/mike-...

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

Just 2 @redmonk.com analysts exploring London. w @rstephens.me

When a child shows trust in their parent, it can be profound. "When your kid tells you something, listen to what they say. Don't assume your lived experience is theirs." - @azimman.bsky.social #monkigras

Java enters the chat. A talk about open source and avoiding bus factors (when a maintainer gets hit by a bus). Welcome @hollycummins.com and @sannegrinovero.bsky.social to #monkigras. The pressure on maintainers is growing more than ever especially with AI slop.

For folks at #Monkigras curious about @commonhaus.org, I recorded a @redmonk.com MonkCast w @ebullient.dev: redmonk.com/blog/2024/11...

Hear my conversation with @apievangelist.com on @redmonk.com MonkCast. I invited Kin on the podcast to help me untangle one of the most pressing questions in developer tooling today: what happens to APIs and SDKs when #AI enters the picture? redmonk.com/videos/sdks-... youtube.com/shorts/NzlNH...

I’m @redmonk.com #Monkigras bound! Red eye to London tonight, festivities tomorrow @monkchips.com, @rstephens.me Thanks to @iamstan.elmo.sh, I even brought a raincoat this year instead of an umbrella ☔️

"The story of how ATMs didn’t automate bank tellers is, indeed, something of a minor parable of the economics profession" - David Oks davidoks.blog/p/why-the-at...

After years, VisualHaggard.org is nearly ready to come back online!! ICYMI, VH was a peer reviewed #digitalhumanities project I created while completing my PhD at @cmu.edu. It was a huge part of my transition from academia into the tech industry. (archived version web.archive.org/web/20220815... )

Hear @stu.bsky.social, Senior Director of Market Insights, Hybrid Platforms at Red Hat on @redmonk.com's MonkCast. We chat about Stu's career in the tech industry, including behind-the-scenes stories from his time as an analyst at theCUBE redmonk.com/videos/cloud... youtube.com/shorts/KKYtl...

“But as the hype dies down, Moltbook looks less like a window onto the future and more like a mirror held up to our own obsessions with AI today.” @willdouglasheaven.bsky.social www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/06/1...

I chatted with Ansgar Lindwedel, Director of Software Defined Vehicle (SDV) Ecosystem Development at the Eclipse Foundation for the latest episode of @redmonk.com's MonkCast. redmonk.com/videos/eclip... www.youtube.com/shorts/AcRGX...

How cool is this? My book, "Speculation and the Darwinian Method in British Romance Fiction, 1859-1914" (OUP 2025) is shortlisted for the @bsfa.bsky.social Awards in the Best Non-Fiction (Long) category www.bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-awards-...

I compiled & analyzed the genAI policies of 32 open source organizations, including foundations like the @linuxfoundation.org, @apache.org, & The Eclipse Foundation, as well as individual projects like the Linux Kernel, Gentoo, cURL, & @matplotlib.org. @redmonk.com redmonk.com/kholterhoff/...

Hear my conversation with @ecology-chris.com, Founder of Ecology Computing, organizer of #devopsdays Atlanta, & mentor at @torc.dev on @redmonk.com's MonkCast 👉 youtube.com/shorts/PmhMh... redmonk.com/videos/chris...

If you've ever wondered why every brand in the world makes you download 50+ MB of gunk just to interact with them on your phone, give this brilliantly clear explanation by Alex Moore of @open-web-advocacy.org and @kateholterhoff.com of @redmonk.com a listen: youtu.be/EOT0w7EwkVI?...

Hear my conversation with Alex Moore, Executive Director of @open-web-advocacy.org, as we unpack why the web has struggled to compete with native apps on mobile, and what regulators are finally doing about it on @redmonk.com's MonkCast. redmonk.com/videos/alex-... youtube.com/shorts/IdC1Y...

Looking forward to seeing my #Java friends at @devnexus.bsky.social next week!! If you're going to be in Atlanta give me a shout 📣

Hear @bagder.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy, Founder of The cURL project, discuss the rise of AI Slop in open source on @redmonk.com's MonkCast: "it's important to not get stuck on the AI part but on the abuse part." redmonk.com/videos/danie... www.youtube.com/shorts/GwfFl...

the AI onslop is hurting open source and community-oriented software development- another great post by my colleague @kateholterhoff.com

AI slop is ripping up the social contract between maintainers and contributors essential to open source development. Practitioners have been repeatedly assured that AI would supercharge their communities, but so far that hasn’t been the case. redmonk.com/kholterhoff/...

In a “if you give a mouse a cookie” situation where I decided to clean a shelf in the fridge, so I pulled out the fridge from the wall to remove it & it was filthy back there, so I started vacuuming the fridge nook, & once I got the mop out might as well mop the rest of the kitchen & the dining room

Lots of talk about #AI + determinism at @dynatrace.com #Perform2026. “Deterministic agents”, “Deterministic AI.”

Say what you want about Vegas, the hotel rooms always have bathrobes

Hear @wesbos.com, co-host of @syntax.fm, chat with me about why 2026 is the year design makes a comeback. We discuss landonorris.com, and why the design of exceptional websites like this can be a critical differentiator. redmonk.com/videos/wes-b... youtube.com/shorts/QgjtL...

💀 theonion.com/what-to-know...

Good write-up by @kateholterhoff.com including a perspective how our relationships to machines is changing. I've said that in the pas and I still believe we should stop anthropomorphising #AI and threat it more as another tool in the toolbox!

"AI Teammate," "AI coworker," we are all still grappling with how to talk about machines that might be genuinely good at their jobs, because we haven't quite figured out what that means for ours. Just don't expect it to bring bagels to standup 🥯 @redmonk.com redmonk.com/kholterhoff/...

"I find it funny we had both separately been looking into @mintlify.bsky.social and found very different, but very critical bugs." 😬 gist.github.com/hackermondev...

Two of my anxieties at one time!! www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

just became conscious of Lando Norris. handsome chap. his website is fucking next level. @kateholterhoff.com is talking about the return of Design, and this seems like a good example. fucking ridiculous website. kind of reminds me of the mad shit people used to do with Flash. landonorris.com

Bought my @redmonk.com Monki Gras flight today ✈️ Back in London this March 19-20 monkigras.com

Hear @mhartington.io, Developer Advocate at @prisma.io, & I discuss the state of mobile development, and why CI/CD is still the hardest part, on @redmonk.com's MonkCast. Full episode 👉 redmonk.com/videos/mike-... www.youtube.com/shorts/g4z76...

And mom and dad can hardly wait for school to start again

“He shoots incessantly, improvises constantly… and then spends months in postproduction... This approach is inviting not just because it is unusually creative and collaborative but because it is rooted in the nature of cinema itself.” @bilgeebiri.bsky.social yalereview.org/article/bilg...

10 Things Developers Want from their Agentic IDEs in 2025 1️⃣ Background Agents 2️⃣ Persistent Memory 3️⃣ Predictable Pricing 4️⃣ MCP 5️⃣ Multi-Agent Orchestration 6️⃣ Spec-Driven Development 7️⃣ Reliability 8️⃣ Human-in-the-loop Controls 9️⃣ Rollbacks 🔟 Skills redmonk.com/kholterhoff/...

Highly recommend this short documentary about Judy-Lynn del Rey, especially if you aren't familiar with her contributions to sci fi publishing. www.pbs.org/wnet/america...

More from Zach here:

Have you been following the JavaScript Bundler Grand Prix? Consider recent announcements including @voidzero.dev's Vite+, @bytedance.bsky.social's Rspack 1.6, @vercel.com's @nextjs.org 16 (beta) release enabling Turbopack by default, & @anthropic.com's Bun acquisition. redmonk.com/kholterhoff/...

“The cost of abstractions with #AI is very high. Over abstraction was always annoying and a code smell but now there’s an easy solution: spend tokens.” @leerob.com’s write up on @cursor.com ditching their headless CMS @sanity.io is worth a read leerob.com/agents

Further proof that expiration dates are made up, I used this capsicum cream I’ve been holding on to since studying abroad in the Netherlands in 2006 on my sore shoulder today 😂

To celebrate #awsreinvent, @redmonk.com has been publishing New Builders conversations w @awscloud.bsky.social leaders every day this week & TODAY IS MY DAY 🎉🎉🎉!! Hear AWS's Ali Maaz & Jessie VanderVeen chat all things #AI & #DevTools w me redmonk.com/videos/insid... www.youtube.com/shorts/Ot0gy...

We escaped the casino at #awsreinvent w @monkchips.com @bettyjunod.bsky.social @sogrady.org

Hear AWS's Deepak Singh discuss the evolution of devtools, particularly in the context of GenAI & Kiro, w @monkchips.com. This New Builders conversation covers @awscloud.bsky.social's journey in the container space, #DevX, & ways that #AI is reshaping how developers work redmonk.com/videos/from-...

The @angular.dev team just dropped a fantastic classic video game themed v21 release video featuring @marktechson.com & @thepunderwoman.com. It’s worth a watch! youtu.be/DDAHORVzQ5g

We’re getting pumped for @awscloud.bsky.social #reinvent here at @redmonk.com and have some AMAZING MonkCast episodes queued up for the occasion. Teaser: they’re all about developers