Logged into #KubeCon with Sched and got some serious nostalgia. This will be 10 years since my first attendance (the little event at OSCON) and 9th Kube-adjacent event I've attended. Mind blowing.

:: taps the microphone :: Cool cool, this is still on. Hit me up if you'll be at #KubeCon! I miss my tribe and excited to see many of you.

And just like that... I'm registered for KubeCon next week! I'll be freelancing, spending time at the @augmentcode.com booth (and you should too)! There's still time to register and I'd love to see you there: register.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-clou... #KubeCon #CloudNativeCon

Your brain is not a computer. Your thoughts are not algorithmic. Don’t let Silicon Valley limit your understanding of your own mind with inaccurate metaphors.

Hallucinations are a feature. LLMs contribute probabilistic creativity. Tools contribute deterministic certainty. Agents combine these in a loop. @adamhjk.me #o11yDay

Putting all your controllers in one directory and your views in another Is like putting the cortisone and hemorrhoid cream in the drawer with toothpaste because they're all tubes.

It’s been a min since I contributed but it’s still been one of the most rewarding parts of my open source experience. #cncf contribcard.cncf.io/mbbroberg

I found this so beautiful @charity.wtf. Thank you. charity.wtf/2025/07/09/t...

Cloudflare’s new “Pay per Crawl” lets sites charge AI bots for scraping, and it’ll block AI crawlers by default on new sites. The current model is unsustainable and I expect the best content on the web to eventually be paywalled for both humans and bots besides a few large ad supported platforms.

We anticipated this exactly: "I've seen a lot of posts that say, oh my gosh, this paper shows that the brain's ability to form new connections is damaged. That is not at all what connectivity means, right?" @analog-ashley.bsky.social: "No, no, no, no." www.changetechnically.fyi/2396236/epis...

I've been working through a series of posts on how Team Topologies connects to my approach to product thinking. I've got 11 and counting, so I organized them into a map of content here. I'd love to hear if any are helpful to others. mbbroberg.fun/garden/team-...

@kaeawc.bsky.social great talk!

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A tragic day in Minnesota, a terrifying example for us all

In re: LRT, Minnesota is the opposite of a news desert - the Twin Cities has dozens of responsible news outlets staffed by incredibly professional journalists. They do not need your breathless, speculative assistance in covering this story. Post *local* coverage as it emerges, and ignore the noise.

Nation, if you see pictures of people protesting in Minnesota today, know that it has turned into a vigil, and we are doing it very afraid.

New shirt 🏳️‍⚧️ 🐅

Just said "Conway's Law rules everything around me" and got smirks & head nods all around.

Agents are the new coal I'm trying on a new hot take and I like it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_...

My toddler hit a phase of what feel like experimental nightly auto updates with no changelog

📊 Essential rituals for tracking and sharing results vs goals 🤝 Ways to handle missed goals constructively 💪 Tips for helping teams be accountable, not just holding them accountable Real examples include: 📑 Homebase's "Monday night data meeting" that draws in cross-functional teams

Claude just updated its model and it's amazing. Check it out and use my refer link if you're into it claude.ai/referral/mHe...

@safety.bsky.app @support.bsky.team ok I’m officially getting swamped with trash political accounts that are clearly fake. Is there a policy or practice of banning them? It’s been a 100+ in the last week.

I have a terrible product talk idea: Show me on the ladder where it hurts: visualizing product language and OKR practices for alignment and sanity

I realized something recently, which is that we're building AI tools completely backwards. While I was aware that there's some de-skilling happening already, I finally clicked a bunch of pieces together and decided to write this to talk about how we can do *better* hazelweakly.me/blog/stop-bu...

Prompts are the new dotfiles. This thought keeps coming up for me. There are great patterns to reuse, a natural urge to and value from sharing, but ultimately it’s a form of expression. Our configuration is incredibly personal nature, I’m noticing a pattern where prompts are in that same category.

Any others seeing a major uptick in followers? I’ve had 100 in 2 days and very few relate to my topics. FYI @support.bsky.team

I wrote these guidelines after watching teams struggle with role confusion and keep reusing it as needed. Do you have any go-to ways to realign the roles when they're out of sync? mbbroberg.fun/garden/produ...

A long read on finding flow in a past role > Applying Team Topologies to Marketing and Community #teamtopologies mbbroberg.fun/articles/app...

"A fundamental misconception in product transformation is that everything must become a product." This point is essential, but can also be misleading. Here are two concrete examples of "not a product" needs turning into product needs: teamtopologies.com/news-blogs-n...

It feels good to share again. I've rebuilt my workflow using Obsidian + Hugo, but more importantly I've updated my *idea* of sharing to a lower friction digital garden. If you're looking to share your ideas more organically, I've documented my setup here 🌱 mbbroberg.fun/make-obsidia...

published another ai blog post. yes, it’s my second in a row. no, i’m not pivoting. i just accidentally started caring about protocols.

Good morning, Bluesky.

Just told a room full of newsroom execs and investigative journalists, hopefully coherently, to always start with human problems, do not add AI to their workflows uncritically, and to build and use technology according tot heir values, with a duty of care for their communities. Privileged to do so.

getting rid of employees is definitely not always a good business decision

Every product thinker, bookmark this as a case study

That seems very possible to filter out and the service can be called the "Midwest Mitigation System"

“You can’t say people are our most important product and then treat them like shit.” - Jim Sinegal, co-founder of Costco

“We don’t normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology, which means that a literate person is someone whose thought processes are technologically mediated. We became cognitive cyborgs as soon as we became fluent readers, and the consequences of that were profound.” From Exhalation

Need to find all deleted markdown files between two commits and got to: git diff --diff-filter=D --name-only HEAD <commit> -- "*.md" Sharing in case you also accidentally erased a chunk of your @obsidian.md vault but are fortunate enough to run git behind the scenes *in addition to* sync / backup

This is amazing, and the first time in my life I’ve read “biomimicry” and “butthole” in the same paragraph. velvetshark.com/ai-company-l...

“I have 3 children under 7 and I’m here, of course I’m organised” I LOVE this! @sophweston.bsky.social sharing the skills she learned as a parent that helped her career! Stakeholder Management, Influencing, Flexibility, Crisis Management

I love everything I’ve learned about leveraging this phenomenon to improve products

I love this goal

The @cncf.io announced a new job board dedicated to open source jobs at #KubeCon gitjobs.dev The platform itself is open source #jobception github.com/cncf/gitjobs

generated code is the future, but turned all my config files into symbolic links due to some sketchy bash edits and a lowered guard. womp womp time to find all the git repos I obsessively create and restore like the stymied simian I am.

Oh right, it’s don’t believe the internet (more than usual) day

Just conquered the Sisyphean task of finding Fitbit's actual band replacement page. For future reference: g.co/fitbit/band After 15ish links looping back onto themselves, unanswered messages, the secret link was listed during the support call 🙈

“Clarity comes from designing views that serve a specific job and ensuring people know when and how to use them” I love when @johncutle.fish goes deep on organizational constructs and pokes at a theory I’m deeply engaging with rn. open.substack.com/pub/cutlefis...

Isn’t the headline “alleged business genius loses 11 billion in 3 years. Why do we still admire him?” stocks.apple.com/APscUom-KRbG...