I just published a post helping people fine-tune their own LLMs: There's an accompanying git repo here: github.com/ianmiell/fin... zwischenzugs.com/2025/11/04/f...

Free access to O'Reilly for 30 days (and read my book!) 👇 I've been posting about how I'm writing a book on 'Money Flows' for engineers, going beyond Conway's Law... You can get 30-day access to the O’Reilly platform using this link. Please repost! bit.ly/4q8Khz9

Pleased to announce that my book 'Follow the Money' is now in early release with O'Reilly! Building on Conway's Law, FTM argues that comms structures are molded by 'money flows'. Reading this will enable you to fix organisation problems that hold you back. www.oreilly.com/library/view...

@pidster.com hey, I need to talk to you about something - how do I best contact you?

I see the bots have arrived on bluesky... I guess it's officially mainstream now...

Me talking to infoq about the book I'm writing for O'Reilly www.linkedin.com/posts/infoq_...

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Is this a joke?

If god had meant us not to use vim, he would have made it easier to close.

If you're not sure who the chief technologist is on your zoom call, it's the one who's having trouble with sound on their laptop.

A write-up from InfoQ on my talk yesterday about shifting audits left www.infoq.com/news/2025/04...

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

Those service mesh arguments are getting out of hand

Grabs popcorn

The only fair way to handle this is to appoint a team of teenagers to tear this company limb from limb until we find out what kind of financial damage they are hiding and where

Good article from @ianmiell.bsky.social: Why I'm No Longer Talking to Architects About Microservices blog.container-solutions.com/why-im-no-lo... #dataBS

I just published this post on using Neo4J to explore NIST's Open Source Controls Assessment Language (OSCAL) on my personal blog: zwischenzugs.com/2025/03/15/e...

Everyone talks about Trump’s 19th century approach to tariffs, but there’s a precedent from less than 100 years ago that also involved Canada that’s pertinent here. From Containers Don’t Lie by Larocco, published 2019 Please RT for reach

Just watched this. A lovely film, really quite moving and eye opening. A little gem of a film. What BBC should be do more of. Stacey Dooley, Growing Up Gypsy: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0028vp5 via @bbciplayer

How do you overheat a hard drive? Or was this in DOGE's hq in Hades?

I just published a post on 'Why I'm No Longer Talking to Architects About Microservices'. I reached the limit of my patience last week! blog.container-solutions.com/why-im-no-lo...

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ChatGPT in 'thinking' step on Deep Research mode: "... I'm curious about Ian Miell's style, noting his use of personal anecdotes, sarcasm, and contrarian viewpoints. ..." Sarcasm? Contrarian? I feel seen.

Here's me giving my preferred definition of what Cloud Native is, and some of the reasons I like it: riverside.fm/shared/expor... Full postcode here: • Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/0ZC7F4r... • Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... • Amazon: music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/838...

John Cage has consulted his lawyers www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

Strangely beautiful

Pfft. Who needs YouTube 😍

The things I'm hearing from my friends in the US are truly disturbing. 1933

Pretty amazing graph. That's a lot of cat videos.

Karma

Here's me talking about talking about the open source Continuous Compliance Framework next week at State of Open Con 2025. See you there!

I had to explain today to a roomful of 30 co-workers that embiggens is a perfectly cromulent word. They had no idea what I was talking about. I feel old.

Anyone used Earthly and Dagger and can tell me the key differences? github.com/earthly/eart...

Got two pour-overs and a lemon scone

Are more people coming here today to avoid the 'reichest' man in the world?

If you want to make god laugh, show them your future-proofed software architecture

Well, the central character does fall in love at the end...

The late 60s really was a different time

Am on a bus with someone listening to Jesus telling them via an AI voice from their mobile phone that they are slaves to their screens.

Got fed up with my wife beating me at this NYT game, so I wrote a script to do it for me. github.com/ianmiell/let...

The only thing that's changed is the social medium

ChatGPT makes writing code fun again.

*Me at home with hundreds of unread books*: I don't fancy reading any of these. *Me in a library*: I must read this book now, I'm going to do just that over here.

youtube.com/watch?v=TbXZ... Pete and Bas and AI - genius combination

Tech support? Naa here is a pro tip to get the free ChatGPT subscription 😂 Turing test can go to the dev null 😂