that word really needs to be removed from the industry's vocabulary. manager works just fine.

said this before, but i can't decide what i'm more appreciative of: the fact that people around the world are not holding our athletes personally responsible for our government's unconscionable actions, or that our athletes are using their platforms to say "no, this is wrong" at great personal risk

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i get surveys pretty regularly saying "Susan Collins did X or Y for Maine, would you consider voting for her?" my question: given that she voted to confirm RFK Jr, thus endangering the entire country with outrages like this, what difference does what she did or didn't do for this state make?

[daughter's home from school because she's sick] TEN YEAR OLD: daddy, can i have chicken noodle soup with milk in it like grammie used to make for you? ME: i'll check ME: [a minute later] well, the good news is that we have some 10YO: [sigh] ok, so what's the bad news? ME: it expired four years ago

some thoughts as we enter 2026 on AI, its costs and its benefits, its impacts and its promise, and its inevitability redmonk.com/sogrady/2026...

in retrospect, collapsing three or four different pieces into one piece may not have been my best idea ever

There are bigger things to focus on.

sad for all of the pats fans here and elsewhere, but happy for my seattle friends. meanwhile, as the ten year old reminded me today, two days until pitchers and catchers.

i didn't understand most of it, but i didn't need to: the joy came through loud and clear. i don't watch halftime specials as a rule, but i'm glad i watched this one.

as an american, i appreciate the class of the european audience who booed our leadership but had grace for our athletes, and i appreciate the athletes that used their platform to speak up about what they do not support.

when i got laid off years ago from a dying startup while i was on site with a client in dallas, the company paid for my unexpectedly early flight home. as expected. the idea that i could have been stranded in a foreign country, even a war zone, is incomprehensible.

featuring Balki!

connecticut is about to have an incredible public transit system

this is interesting github.com/mitchellh/vo...

words can't properly convey the bravery of the people of minnesota www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

hope the Muppet Show special's numbers get it a shot at an actual series rather than a one off. i expected to like it because nostalgia, but the ten year old enjoyed it so much we're now watching old Muppet Show episodes.

Adam Driver

end of an era. will pour one out tonight for the OG PaaS.

looks like i have to rewrite the entire opening to the piece i'm working on

seemed like the only thing to watch tonight, to recall a quaint time when the paper’s owner and editor had courage and the idea of bending the knee to an out of control administration would have been incomprehensible

have just finished a book about the Church committee’s investigation of the US intelligence community in the 70's, it's at least possible that i'm more alarmed about this than i should be, but it seems not great

judging by our client calls, 2026 is going to be...interesting...in terms of technology tool and infrastructure pricing

TEN YEAR OLD: dad, [our dog] thinks i'm his best friend ME: yes, i buy that. what does he think about mummy? 10YO: that she's a nice woman who lives with us ME: and how about me? 10YO: that you're a grumpy old guy who disciplines him ME: 10YO: [shrugs] you're not his favorite ME:

as someone who has great reverence for the work this newsroom did in helping America thwart the will of its last would be dictator, this hurts

i accept that it's probably weird that i can never remember which of ryan gosling, ryan reynolds and (recently) glen powell is which, but i think it's slightly more understandable with alexander skarsgård, bill skarsgård and peter sarsgaard

nothing inspires credibility like a would be financier who thinks your analyst business is actually a restaurant

NEIGHBOR: are you still feeding your crows? ME: oh yeah, 100% NEIGHBOR: we saw one the other day with a gray patch on its- ME: right, that's Gray Feathers NEIGHBOR: wait, you have names for them? ME: not...all of them?

given all of google's efforts with AI visual editing, did not have "google photo's magic eraser getting much, much worse" on my bingo card

mainers taking care of mainers. i love my state.

this trip: 8 delays, lost a day, < 24 hours in each city, ate most meals at a sky club, closed with a red eye. not my favorite. but back at home the public works crew had to work overnight to repair a busted water main in a -20 windchill so kids could go to school. by comparison, i’ve got it easy.

no shit, Apple Watch, it’s not called a red eye because it‘s good for you

it’s been six years since she jumped through a bunch of hoops to get the red sox world series game on in the SFO sky club, and i still heavily overtip the bartender every time i’m in here. she doesn’t know why, and she doesn’t need to. red sox fans don’t forget that kind of kindness.

all the talk of FOSDEM is making me sad, for missing FOSDEM yet again, but more for the permanent closing of what was probably my favorite bar in the world. it was so good that if i’d known this was happening, i would have manufactured a reason to fly to brussels to go one last time.

“they’re just deporting criminals” my state has been invaded by monsters. just straight up monsters.

per a friend of RedMonk, ChatGPT has an interesting set of default examples for analyst firms

just what we need in maine: one less nurse. to the ”they’re just deporting criminals” people: go fuck yourselves. you’re every bit the monster that ICE is. to my friends helping to protect the targeted populations: i am so very proud of you. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/28/s...

Lots of great replies here if you’re looking for ways to support the great work Mainers are doing to fight fascism and care for each other.

A makeshift memorial has been set up on a Boston Public Garden bench today in memory of Renee Good and Alex Pretti.

i would like to say that the people of minneapolis demonstrate who we, the people of the united states, actually are. i can’t. we elected the people doing this. but i believe that minneapolis shows us who we can be, if we stand together. as maine is doing right now. we’re with you, minnesota.

guess i know which office to try first now

Savannah Thissen, like the other good people of Minneapolis, is very brave www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

this is great, timely and very accessible, even to laypeople

one the best solutions to kid care on snow days is importing other kids from down the street to distract your kid

things that happen on days i (in theory) travel

so say we all

the people of minneapolis are examples for us all

totally broken to the point that i had to turn do not disturb on

it's why even at our worst, I can't hate this country. so many of us are awful. the people in power are so often awful. but we are a 287 different cultures in a trench coat and when those of us who love being in that trench coat with the gang rise up, we are fucking amazing.