ICYMI, Friday was my last day at @redmonk.com I am excited about what’s next for me (more on this next week). For now, just want to say how grateful I am to my RedMonk colleagues for my time as a monk. Also, I left you a post on my way out: redmonk.com/kfitzpatrick...

#MonkiGras here I come! Who will I see there?

I'm looking for my next thing, and I need to move fast. I have several years of experience in developer relations from startups to the enterprise, and I'm particularly skilled at distilling complex topics into something easily understood by newbies and non-technical folks alike, on stage or off. 1/3

For anyone out there who is considering (or knows someone who is considering) a career in STEM, some thoughtful, timely, and much appreciated advice from @grimalkina.bsky.social The full conversation: redmonk.com/blog/2025/03...

Take a few minutes and listen to this conversation with the always brilliant @grimalkina.bsky.social on the psychology of software teams, the importance of psychology to technical innovation, and why we need science. Full episode here: redmonk.com/blog/2025/03...

Okay, I cannot recommend 5calls.org enough. Enter your address and it will find all your reps (federal and state). AND give you a list of issues to call about AND which reps to call about each of them AND a little script for each, in case it's helpful. They have an app, too.

In 2025, is every Saturday morning flight basically like a flight to Vegas, or are folks just Buffalo Tracing their way through the end times?

How does @githubeducation.bsky.social plan to reach 1 BILLION developers? @github.com's @avni321.bsky.social joins @kellyann.bsky.social to talk global developer enablement, the role of generative AI, and why the world needs coding skills now more than ever. redmonk.com/blog/2025/02...

In the latest @redmonk.com update from @kateholterhoff.bsky.social. Congratulations @rstephens.me A very well deserved promotion!!!!

it's just my experience, but i've been calling my rep's offices regularly since 2016, and one of my rep's mailboxes is full and half of one senator's lines either don't go through or were busy. that's never happened in the time i have been calling. keep the pressure on. call your reps. 5calls.org

Wild how the category of “women” must both be ruthlessly defended by the right but also stripped from all direct research, support, or institutional funding.

my December 2024 brain has some serious explaining to do

I regret to inform you that people have officially started circling back around after the holidays

Here's my end-of-year review of things we learned out about LLMs in 2024 - we learned a LOT of things simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/31/... Table of contents:

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Jumping on the bandwagon by calling out my 5 star reads of 2024. It was not the best reading year for me, I'll admit. I DNF'd probably around 15 books, finished 45, and was pretty disappointed in a large majority of those. But here are some I loved!

when you have a holiday cold and a cat insisting that you stop doomscrolling and rest

🎼 All I want for Christmas 🎶 🎵 Is a 2024 redo 🎶

missed #caturday b/c planes, but here’s a sleepy Ishka

The William Morris Society US is now accepting applications for the 2025 Joseph R. Dunlap Memorial Fellowship, supporting scholarly and creative work about William Morris and his circle. Deadline: January 31, 2025. More information: morrissociety.org/2024/12/17/c...

This is notable because Vultr has self-funded their cloud infrastructure buildout from their operating cash flow up to now www.wsj.com/articles/clo...

Headed to Notre Dame for an outdoor football game on Friday ☘️ And of course there is snow in the forecast 🌨️

On Monday, @bcantrill.bsky.social and I were joined by @postwait.lethargy.org, @kellyann.bsky.social, and @sogrady.org to talk about tech conferences. Unsurprisingly, a lot has changed in the decades since we met these folks at conferences! What's worth the trip in 2025? youtu.be/YBId0FLKxCo

8:15AM, Edinburgh.

"Midwinter - Perchta and the Wild Hunt" ❄️ Personal piece A counterpart piece to my summer witches, with Jupiter smuggling his way besides Perchta/Hulda riding in the night sky, because he has been shining so bright in the night sky this january.

disclosure: those are @rstephens.me’s friendship bracelets

It’s interesting to note that the UCLA #complit AI course had heavy input and design from likely underpaid history grad students. I’m curious to know if any other #literature faculty had input on this and what the faculty actually did for revision and #CourseDesign. Expertise matters!

Finally home on a #Caturday, so taking the opportunity to reintroduce my cats.

Hello hello graduate students of #MedievalSky UNC and Duke University are co-hosting Vagantes 2025 in Durham, NC, USA Apr 3-5 and still looking for submissions! Here's the CFP--abstracts due by December 9th. (I'm saying come hang out with me and my friends we are nice and also funny) #callforpapers

I won’t make it to AWS re:Invent this year, but if you’re on the ground in Vegas be sure to say hi to my excellent @redmonk.com colleagues!

Many organizations for women in tech and other under-represented groups have shut down the past few years like Women Who Code and Girls In Tech. One of the reasons cited is lack of funds If you are able to, please donate to organizations that support underrepresented people in tech 🧵

Google recently released the 2024 Accelerate State of DevOps (DORA) report, and there were some holy shit moments in those 120 pages. Or–to phrase it more professionally–this year’s report has some very interesting and counterintuitive findings. redmonk.com/rstephens/20...

Final castle for today: Château d'Angers

up next: Chenonceau or, the chateau on a bridge

It is Thanksgiving in the US, but I am in France, so today was all about Loire valley chateaux (castles) in the rain 🏰🧵 Up first: Chambord!

Public != Consent, especially when it comes to humans and their data. A great time for researchers to read the CACM article that @juniperlov.bsky.social, amanda casari, and I wrote about doing research in open source ecosystems: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

on a plane to Paris what should I see?

Hey, medieval lit and adaptation types, I have a very bright soon to be 13 year old who wants to get into reading Arthurian stuff. Is there a good collection of the stories and/or cool modernizations and reimaginings of them?

So this is pretty cool: I think I’m the first national news correspondent to switch my chyron social handle from X to Bluesky. 💪🏽

With Cyber Five 2024 almost upon us, check out this @redmonk.com video with Pete Karytko of Yottaa about how his team leverages its expertise--and @fastly.com technologies--to help Yottaa’s customers deliver performant and secure experiences in the e-commerce space. redmonk.com/videos/e-com...

I’d like to get better at story telling; verbal storytelling specifically, not writing. I’d love it if y’all’d share your inspirations ❤️ 1. Who’s your favorite story teller? Tech related or not 2. What’s your favorite video of them telling stories? 3. What do you love about *how* they tell stories?

“.bsky.social” is the oxford comma of social media handles

Attn @monkchips.bsky.social

My book (with the very cool dragon eye on the cover) is on sale! And I also have some @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social shopping to do buff.ly/3YNA3qR

Top 10 Things Developers Want from their AI Code Assistants in 2024: 1️⃣ Tab Completion 2️⃣ Speed 3️⃣ High-level 4️⃣ Superb suggestions 5️⃣ Context 6️⃣ IDE Fork/ No Fork? 7️⃣ Mult. LLM Support 8️⃣ Mult. LLMs Simultaneously 9️⃣ Multi-file Creation & Editing 🔟 Mitigate Unintended Deletions redmonk.com/kholterhoff/...

Ok! Let’s get back to the ‘Making the Best of it’ thread! And we can kick it off with ‘Larkspur’, also a design from this period of his work!

ICMYI, mine and @lollardfish.bsky.social recent newsletter with lots of links and warnings about Pete Hegseth (suggesed to be Sec of Defense), the phrase "deus vult," and its ties to far right violence #medievalsky free to read and share (and subscribe!) buttondown.com/ModernMediev...

"this is fine" British Library Manuscript - royal ms 20 a ii f3r

in case anyone else has been struggling with things, for whatever it's worth, these are a couple of things i've been using to prop myself up in the wake of last week

#KubeCon job board for those looking