It's back up. Phew. I didn't have any thoughts that needed thinking in The Moment of Lost Hope.

I think this means I'm going to have to actually read things myself and also - horror or all horror - think for myself? Even write with my own fingers! Good grief!

Good episode!

I really wish people would pick up their trash around here.

Plus, I think there's the series one cards from Devnexus at #SpringIO - here's a sampling.

If you're not there to get the actual cards, you can check them out at TanzuCards.com. And, if you are there, you can use that to track your collection and read backstories on each. tanzucards.com/cards

If you're at Spring IO this week, check out all my colleagues talks. Plus, there's a new batch of Tanzu Cards available... COLLECT THEM ALL OR PERISH AT THE HANDS OF THOSE WHO SUCCEEDED IN THE GRAND COLLECTION! spring.io/blog/2026/04...

The Spring Team on Spring Framework 7 and Spring Boot 4 www.infoq.com/articles/spring-team-spr...

The Curious History of Coca-Cola’s “Fanta” Beverage www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/medical-hist...

Pruning the AI Garden, Backrooms Gothic, and a Saxophone Deficit - Related to your interests, Monday Also: Managed Agents, password manager angst, and vibe-coded …

Pruning the AI Garden, Backrooms Gothic, and a Saxophone Deficit - Related to your interests, Monday // Also: Managed Agents, password manager angst, and vibe-coded home dashboards // my newsletter episode for today: cote.io/2026/04/13/p...

Bottlenecks that AI automation exposes, programming edition. andrewmurphy.io/blog/if-you-thought-the-...

There's an empirical thing to do to judge the "good" of this: do we find more bug and make the world more secure? www.theregister.com/2026/04/10/project_glass...

Claude on the Couch, Poop Bombs, and Agile Seating // Also: Russian submarines near undersea cables, Dutch sovereign clouds, and the etymology of luggage // my newsletter: cote.io/2026/04/10/claude-on-the...

"A compelling title that is cryptic enough to get you to take action on it" ericwbailey.website/published/a-compelling-t...

"Thanks in large part to 'The Backrooms,' media scholars have begun to grapple more seriously with the sudden popularity of liminal aesthetics in online folklore" thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/backrooms-and-the-rise-o...

More from Anthropic's Public cloud AI PaaS thenewstack.io/with-claude-managed-agen...

@ericwbailey.website I enjoyed your SC 2.4.4 newsletter edition - lots of good links! :)

"Hightower suggested describing the combination of Bash and cURL as "the zero-token architecture," because many organizations are starting to introduce token consumption quotas to control their AI bills." www.theregister.com/2026/04/08/automation_ze...

🚀 Check out this game-changing tool that "translates" text into LinkedIn-ready content! 📈 It might even work the other way around! 🔄 #Innovation #Networking #PersonalBranding #GrowthMindset #TechTrends https://translate.kagi.com/?from=en&to=linkedin

"Java's explicitness and verbosity turn into a strength when it comes to using AI code assistants, because it's easier to read and understand the Java code they suggest adding to your critical, highly-optimized enterprise apps." thenewstack.io/in-the-ai-age-java-is-mo...

''I don't know if they are directly related to actual productivity gains,' www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/tech-indus...

I Still Prefer MCP Over Skills https://david.coffee/i-still-prefer-mcp-over-skills/

Airport Meltdowns - New Flighty Features Global airports status map, Flighty app, April 8th, 2026 …

I love this new airport meltdowns view in Flighty Features - cote.io/2026/04/08/a...

Have your robot friend keep its own wiki. gist.github.com/karpathy/442a6bf55591489...

Pretty strong calling BS on "we laid off these people because if AI” claims and thinking www.forrester.com/blogs/beware-the-magical...

A ready made memory system for AI apps, modeled after Claude's memory model. spring.io/blog/2026/04/07/spring-a...

"Tech leaders hoping AI might help save money and improve efficiency in IT infrastructure should know that only 28 percent of use cases fully succeed and offer return on investment (ROI)." www.theregister.com/2026/04/07/ai_returns_ga...

Much more than "hallucinating," in my recent experience the problem with agentic AI is that it forgets things and doesn't realize it. You'll be going along weeks later assuming it knows how you like to work, and it does not. A memory system is vital.

A good starting point for SDLC governance. open.substack.com/pub/bryanrossuk/p/find-c...

Super-not good for all business books and anything about "culture" in IT management lore https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00955-5