Maybe not every SaaS service needs a year in review...

our kids sleep with stuffed animals that you can warm up in the microwave before bed. the result is super cozy, but it’s always a little unsettling to be the person in charge of nuking the baby animals.

the most relatable part of Little Mermaid as a parent is the horror of discovering your child has built a shrine out of random trash they found on the playground, and they are emotionally attached to every single “treasure” whole fucking house is full of dinglehoppers I can’t throw away.

Still can’t speak Spanish past what I remember from high school, still terrible at chess, still fiercely protective of my streak

The @redmonk.com team allows* me to plan activities for the team holiday happy hour every year, and I am SO EXCITED for today's Show and Tell festivities. *begrudgingly allows

I talked with @zachlloyd.bsky.social from @warp.dev about how the terminal is changing, why agentic development needs new interfaces, and what comes after writing code by hand. redmonk.com/blog/2025/12...

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/...

ain't no party like a reinvent party cuz a reinvent party don't sto ---- wait hold on, it's almost midnight and I haven't done my duolingo yet, give me a couple minutes

Text 1: “I’m so excited you texted me! I promise I won’t be annoying!” Texts 2-5: “and if I am annoying here are various ways you can signal that I’m annoying!” (but alas this pattern matching didn’t hit until ~2 hours after text 5.)

Sudden realization 8 years in - am I still supposed to be gauging the temperature of my kids’ baths with my elbow? Is that just an infant thing that you are naturally supposed to stop doing?

I love moments when I'm reminded how amazing my colleagues are, and right now is a @kateholterhoff.com appreciation moment. She does such great work!

That feeling when you get ready to go out to dinner and then realize you could have looked presentable all day if you had just done this 8 hours earlier

Totally not the point of this post, but I love this line from @charity.wtf: "infrastructure is the code you have to run in order to run the code you want to run" www.honeycomb.io/blog/the-meh...

Forgot to post this yesterday… twinning with @rstephens.me at #kubeconNA!

I used Lasagna Love earlier this year after we had a loss in the family. I didn't have a financial need, I just wanted a home cooked meal and the feeling that someone cared. The lasagna ended up being delivered the same week my brother lost a close friend, and I shared the meal with him too.

“we’re taking another selfie, this time look like you like us” Getting ready for @redmonk.com beers with @sogrady.org and @kateholterhoff.com Join us at 7:00 and see if Steve gets more smiley as the night progresses

This #kubecon keynote from @puerco.mx and @staceypotter.bsky.social is an absolute delight. more luchadore-themed talks please!

4 year old: let’s have a staring contest 8 year old, approximately 5 seconds later: I win! 4 year old: actually, let’s have a blinking contest

if someone says there's good news and bad news about something related to super glue, you should mentally brace yourself for mostly bad news. (it's me. I'm the bad super glue news.)

I have an application or a browser tab that is periodically making clicking noises. This would be irritating. Until I realized that I was mentally blaming all of the screens viewable on my right monitor first simply because my speaker is also on the right. Now I'm just laughing at human brains.

All hail Brenda www.tiktok.com/@belligerent...

LMAO. @kateholterhoff.com accidentally turned on Zoom's AI Companion at the start of a call and then immediately turned it off. It still sent us a recap.

It's a launch day at @redmonk.com! My colleague @monkchips.com, along with his lovely coauthors @kimmykimkimber.bsky.social @wiredferret.bsky.social & @azimman.bsky.social have released their Progressive Delivery book into the world! Let me tell you about their book! redmonk.com/rstephens/20...

I try so hard to teach my children about having a good moral compass And then they go and leave their Halloween candy bags unattended directly outside my office while they're at school And frankly it's just rude to make me model the behavior back to them

Children in costumes is my best life. I love Halloween.

This is disappointing news on next year's KubeCon location. www.linkedin.com/posts/cloud-...

What do you get when you mix Akamai's edge network with @fermyon.com's WebAssembly platform? A fun conversation about what’s next for serverless edge computing! Join Allen Duet (Akamai) and Matt Butcher (Fermyon) as we talk about distributed serverless compute. redmonk.com/videos/akama...

Double-entry accounting is one of the underrated "this changed the world" innovations. Everyone gets excited about the Italian art renaissance and no one gets excited about the Italian accounting renaissance, and that's a damn shame. (kind of said in jest... but also kind of not)

Normally I try to call them retros but I think post-mortem is correct in this instance.

today I realized I apparently haven't logged into facebook since sometime before June 26 2023. I know the date because that's the timestamp of the oldest of many messages I had waiting for me. It was an invitation to a friend's backyard BBQ. I RSVP'd my regrets.

Well done, PSF 👏

“are you ready to go to *the fanciest* restaurant you have EVER been to??“ <rolls in with an awed 4 year old to the Olive Garden>

P99 Conf runs today and tomorrow! Historically #p99conf features technically rich talks, and this year's agenda seems to indicate 2025 will be more awesomeness! You should drop in for a session or two if you have time. www.p99conf.io/agenda/

Past conversations with my preschooler: 4 -yo: "That's the s-word" Me: Sorry, which word? 4: (whispers) "Stupid" 4: "That's the d-word" Me: It's what word? 4: (furtive glance) "Dumb" Tonight's conversation:

OpenAI dropping Atlas definitely gives some additional context to Atlassian acquiring the Dia / Arc browsers.

Legit question, not bait: if someone sends out a group email asking for everyone to vote on which day to meet up, is the polite thing to reply all or not? I instinctively avoid reply all, but maybe I'm putting too much strain on the originator by dropping everyone else from the message?

next day’s function high-class luncheon #dreamforce

I am a sucker for branded latte art

I really enjoyed tonight’s “random question in an attempt to stall bedtime” If laughing is called laughter why isn’t coughing called coughter?

In this @redmonk.com Conversation, our Research Director @rstephens.me and @mmilinkov.bsky.social, Director of @eclipse.org, discuss the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) and its profound impact on how software is sold and managed. Tune in and listen to the full conversation at redmonk.com/blog/2025/10....

Who Link was here & how he formed site culture, insisting on alt text & accessibility & disability justice, insisting on standing with trans people, mutual aid, irreverent shitposting, shows exactly that this culture of early bluesky that forged the platform is the opposite of what the team wants.

Conclusion Make proof ??? Profit?

The CRA is rewriting the rules of selling software. After 2027, anything sold in Europe must meet strict security standards. This will reshape how we build, patch, and monetize software, and how we work with open source. I spoke with Mike Milinkovich of the Eclipse Foundation to learn more.

"I can control myself around peanut butter cups" is one of the lies I tell myself over and over again without ever acknowledging the truth

💻 “Technical debt always charges interest.” #Monktoberfest 🦞

Actual legend on stage rn at #monktoberfest. John "maddog" Hall on sovereignty and open source.

“Attending @monktoberfest.com = a lifelong condition.” - @grimalkina.bsky.social

Talking of great speakers oh my it's @grimalkina.bsky.social at monktoberfest

"The forks we carry will be heavy, so carry forks that bring you closer to where you want to go, bring you closer to who you want to be, and who you want to be with."

A beautiful #monktoberfest metaphor woven by @juliaferraioli.com about the cost and weight of carrying forks: "Forks are not universally bad. They happen because of an unmet need. We need forks because we needed agency that upstream did not allow us."