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Fintan Ryan @fintanr.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

A little fun for a Monday, I watch a lot of rugby, and like anyone following the URC there are lots of possible permutations for the final three rounds, so I put together a little app to stick in the results you expect and see what the table might look like fintanr.com/urc/

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URC 2025–26 Race to 8, Final Rounds

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Fintan Ryan @fintanr.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Introducing the MIST (Mystify, Intimidate, Sustain, Transform) framework. Transformational thought leadership via Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.5 in "Leveraging Buzzword Synergy to Maximize Stakeholder Confusion: A Strategic Imperative for the Modern Enterprise" msuaas.com/2025/09/30/m... #satire

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Leveraging Buzzword Synergy to Maximize Stakeholder Confusion: A Strategic Imperative for the Modern Enterprise

In today’s hyperconnected business ecosystem, organizations face an unprecedented challenge: stakeholders are becoming dangerously informed. This clarity threatens the traditional consulting model and...

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Fintan Ryan @fintanr.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Not sure building an updated deck on the AI devtools landscape to the strains of Chaos AD from Sepultura will set the correct tone, but lets see how this morning goes..

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Fintan Ryan @fintanr.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

"Perfect! That's a great improvement." - no, no its not, its what I asked you to do the in the first place dear llm.

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Fintan Ryan @fintanr.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

I've said more than a few times that if you like Vibe Coding your going to love Vibe Security... indeed... and thats not to mention the lessons in basic software engineering some folks learned over the last few weeks. www.wiz.io/blog/critica...

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Critical Vulnerability in AI Vibe Coding platform Base44 | Wiz Blog

New discovery underscores security implications of AI-powered development and the rise of Vibe Coding Platforms.

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Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

This is really excellent on our understandings of - and the reality of - intergenerational inequality.

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Fintan Ryan @fintanr.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Right up your street @monkchips.com , think @bettyjunod.bsky.social might enjoy this too. Occhipiniti SP68 Bianco 2023

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Fintan Ryan @fintanr.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Realise it’s trendy to dunk on bullet points right now, but you do realise that they existed before AI. And they are an incredibly effective way of writing for certain audiences.

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Fintan Ryan @fintanr.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

The Silent Language of Office Plants: How Foliage Drives Innovation This weeks ground breaking thought leadership msuaas post, courtesy of Google Gemini 2.5. msuaas.com/2025/07/25/s...

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The Silent Language of Office Plants: How Foliage Drives Innovation

Beyond Aesthetics – The Strategic Imperative of Biophilia

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Fintan Ryan @fintanr.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Finishing up some work and stuck on A Forest by The Cure. Still wonderful that it sends shivers down my spine every time I hear it. youtu.be/xik-y0xlpZ0?...

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The Cure - A Forest

YouTube video by TheCureVEVO

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Fintan Ryan @fintanr.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Silly fun weekend project I finally got around to, introducing Making Shit Up As A Service (msuaas.com), an irreverent look at LLM generated thought leadership.

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Making Shit Up As A Service

Making Shit Up As A Service: An irreverent look at the capabilities of LLMs.

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Fintan Ryan @fintanr.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Don’t think I will make @monktoberfest.com this year. You should if you can.

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Fintan Ryan @fintanr.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

It’s amusing watching people’s egos go stratospheric when they mistake luck and being the massive beneficiaries of the work and foresight of others for some sort of strategic brilliance on their part.

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Fintan Ryan @fintanr.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

BBQ broccoli, bbq limes & satay sauce

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Fintan Ryan @fintanr.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

A welcome view of Edinburghs shoreline after a long layover with an extra delay in Schipol.

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Fintan Ryan @fintanr.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

OpenAI is the first consumer company in a longtime to have the scale to pull this off. Thinking all the way back to 2012 and a twitter interaction with @monkchips.com redmonk.com/jgovernor/20...

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Fintan Ryan @fintanr.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Heads down finishing some work to some new tunes /cc @monkchips.com open.spotify.com/album/2jaVvl...

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Shell~Wave

Surgeon · Album · 2025 · 9 songs

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Fintan Ryan @fintanr.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

The most useful of all Scottish Forecasts, as discussed by parents during a (wonderfully sunny) kids cricket session yesterday - www.smidgeup.com/midge-foreca...

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The Scottish Midge Forecast

The Scottish Midge Forecast uses data from biting midge traps and mini-weather stations across Scotland to give you a view of midge levels in Scotland.

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Fintan Ryan @fintanr.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Does anyone have a copy of the very first State of DevOps report by Puppet from 2012, can't find a version of it /cc some possible suspects in @jedi.be @monkchips.com @littleidea.bsky.social

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Fintan Ryan @fintanr.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

We seem to be reaching a depressing circle of asking AI to summarise the post someone wrote with AI and then someone else asking AI to explain the summary. Exhaust fumes. Its a tool, and a fantastic tool, but its not a replacement.

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Fintan Ryan @fintanr.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Using openai deep research for an area you know well is, um, entertaining and shows up how dangerously inaccurate it can be. More summer intern than phd level research.

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Fintan Ryan @fintanr.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Catching up on all the commentary on 11x using logos without permission. I wrote up some thoughts on this "trend" from an analyst perspective a few years ago. medium.com/@fintanr/on-...

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On Logos, References, Companies and Analysts

Company logos are used, particularly by start-ups, to lend a product or project extra credibility. However, not all displayed logos are…

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Fintan Ryan @fintanr.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

There is a lot of Model Context Protocol (MCP) news right now. Away from the head long rush of technologists to leverage and support MCP it is worth thinking about they why of Anthropic's strategy - some brief thoughts - medium.com/@fintanr/the...

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The Strategy Behind MCP

Model Context Protocol (MCP), first defined by Anthropic, is surfing a wave of enthusiasm right now. MCP has, incredibly quickly, become a…

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Fintan Ryan @fintanr.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

And back in Edinburgh after #Monkigras. Thank you @monkchips.com and all the @redmonk.com crew for a great conference as always.

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100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

March 21, 1925: Scotland’s rugby team defeats England, 14-11, in the newly opened Murrayfield Stadium in Edinburgh. The victory by the Scots (dark jerseys) in the Five Nations tournament secures their first-ever grand slam—a win against all the other opponents.

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Fintan Ryan @fintanr.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

In the bleepy music stakes, new album coming from Surgeon in May, first tunes seem to have dropped. Kicking track /cc @monkchips.com open.spotify.com/track/6xRRpc...

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Soul Fire

Surgeon · Soul Fire · Song · 2025

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Fintan Ryan @fintanr.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Researching a talk and I have had ChatGPT tell me that someone I personally know is dead since 2018. Misinformation by stochastic parrot machine.

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Fintan Ryan @fintanr.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Links for March 13th including a fascinating podcast from @netlify.com CEO Mathias Biilmann & Martin Casado of A16Z on AX, MCP bits and Java Developer Productivity from Perforce. fintanr.com/links/2025/0...

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Interesting Links and Observations, March 13th, 2025

I’ve been far to heads down on a few things, but nice to post again.

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Fintan Ryan @fintanr.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Super excited to be speaking at Monkigras on March 27th & 28th. monkigras.com

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Monki Gras

The developer conference about craft culture

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Fintan Ryan @fintanr.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Today in LLMs say the darnedest things, looking at some bits around @convex.dev and AX, and got "Convex is investing in the agent experience and building actual evil frameworks for agents". I can confirm they word should be useful, not evil. The LLM shall remain nameless.

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Fintan Ryan @fintanr.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Vibe coding. Scaling that legacy server in the corner which no one knows quite whats running on it for the AI era.

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Fintan Ryan @fintanr.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Boring practical take - the current weave of AI no code apps will hit the same governance wall as the last wave of Low Code tools. Enterprises need to ensure compliance at scale. Its boring, but its needed. All the shiny demos in the world can't get away from that fact.

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Fintan Ryan @fintanr.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Very long week, but lovely to get time to cook at the end of it. Chicken w/ barberries & orange juice, roasted cauliflower salad w/ celery, hazelnuts & pomegranate & all spice, cinnamon, maple & sherry vinegar dressing, carrot salad w/ pistachios, coriander, nigella seeds & lime & honey dressing.

Chicken with barberries & orange juice, roasted cauliflower salad w/ celery, hazelnuts & pomegranate & all spice, cinnamon, maple & sherry vinegar dressing, carrot salad w/ pistachios, coriander, nigella seeds & lime & honey dressing.

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Fintan Ryan @fintanr.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

That Coreweave S1 makes for interesting reading www.sec.gov/Archives/edg...

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S-1

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Adam Grant @adamgrant.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

A sign of intellect is the ability to change your mind in the face of new facts. A mark of wisdom is refusing to let the fear of admitting you were wrong stop you from getting it right. The joy of learning something new eventually exceeds the pain of unlearning something old.

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Fintan Ryan @fintanr.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

This. The focus on building bespoke platforms vs customer focused apps is an awful, long running, trend. Your compliance/security/platform requirements are likely almost identical to 100s of other companies. Your needs are likely not unique. Despite what the conferences & blog posts tell you.

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Fintan Ryan @fintanr.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Todays links include IBM's acquisition of DataStax, UK regulatory approval for the IBM acquisition of HashiCorp, Anthropic's new model, Northflank on abandoning next.js, bits on Web Components and MongoDB acquiring VoyageAI. fintanr.com/links/2024/0...

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Interesting Links and Observations, Feb 25th, 2025

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Fintan Ryan @fintanr.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Top London restaurants adopt minimum spend - got to say I completely agree with this. No shows and partial shows ruin the viability of restaurants. High end cooking is a very skilled craft. www.ft.com/content/2d39...

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Top London restaurants adopt minimum spend to deter bots and influencers

Gymkhana, Dorian and Hutong among capital’s eateries combating ‘reservation-squatting’

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