RIA Weekly

Developers don’t buy anything, but they make other people buy things. We try to, once again, build a theory of how developers drive IT spend. Also: hotel shampoo bottles, Scottish vikings, and Kiwi slang. Hey, Coté got off his ass and finally reved back up his newsletter (https://buttondown.email/cote). People love it! Subscribe (https://buttondown.email/cote) and tell all your friends to subscribe (https://buttondown.email/cote)! Mood board: Buying something different to try something new. Australian bagels. “Let’s start the QBR: we’re gonna have hide my ass.” “Obviously if we don’t sell ads we can do whatever the fuck we want.” More fools giving their software away for free I have a lot of thoughts on How to Train Your Dragon Hanging out with the Scots at The Hague I do have a follow-up question, but not on the soap. Some baroque, bespoke, monster piece of infrastructure. Matt’s little bit of glue. How much simpler can you get than straight code? General Container’s army of yamlites. Developer tools = vomi