SXSW 2025: Senior Moments
A look at my SXSW 2025 PanelPicker submission
Plants, Polyphony, Packets, and Progress
A look at plants and progressively converging technologies
SXSW 2024 Days 4-9
My end of day notes from SXSW 2024 Days 4-9
SXSW 2024 Days 1-3
My end of day notes from SXSW 2024 Days 1-3
Notes Before SXSW 2024
My real-time notes before SXSW 2024
Security on the Agenda
A look at the past, present, and future of security on conference agendas
South by Southwest Bound and Down
The Taco Thesis
Thoughts on SxSW 2008
- 11ty
- 3g
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- 5G
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- MEC
- acadia
- access
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- ackronym
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- agriculture
- ai
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- airbyte
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- amazon
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- amplica
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- ansible
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- apache
- api
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- apple
- applications
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- ar
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- ascii-art
- astronomer
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- augmented
- automation
- avatars
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- backronym
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- backstage
- balloons
- bandwidth
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- benthos
- beyondcorp
- bgp
- bicep
- bigquery
- bing
- blogging
- blogpost
- bluesky
- bookmarks
- borderless-networks
- bouyant
- bpf
- brazil
- broadband
- buffering
- business
- business-cards
- buttondown
- byoai
- cable-modem
- cache
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- career
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- chemistry
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- cloud
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- cloudinpublic
- cloudnative
- cloudops
- clusterdesign
- cms
- cobots
- cognigy
- cognizant
- coherence
- com
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- comet
- community
- companies
- composable
- computation
- computeai
- concur
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- connectivity
- conservation
- consulting
- consumer
- convergence
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- cpf
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- cropscience
- crypto
- csa
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- culture
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- cyberhaven
- cybersecurity
- dashboards
- data
- data-protection
- databand
- databricks
- datacenter
- datacenters
- datafusion
- datagarden
- dataops
- dataplatforms
- dataprep
- deep-web
- dell
- design
- designforfail
- designforflail
- devcommsops
- developers
- devices
- devops
- devopsbox
- devsecops
- devx
- dialup
- diaspora
- dictation
- digest
- digital-twins
- digitel
- discord
- dmca
- dns
- docker
- docs-as-code
- docsis
- documentation
- dotcom
- dpu
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- dremio
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- dtw
- e6y
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- ecc
- economics
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- efficiency
- eleventy
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- empathy
- encryption
- energy
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- equity
- essays
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- ethics
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- fabrics
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- features
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- finops
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- flickr
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- footnotes
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- framepointers
- friction
- fudge
- fudge-factor
- functionality
- funding
- future
- futureofwork
- futures
- gartner
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- gcp
- gemini
- genai
- geometry
- github
- gitops
- goldenpath
- government
- gps
- gpu
- gpus
- graphql
- greencoding
- groq
- growth
- gtd
- hadoop
- hardware
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- headless
- healthcare
- helium
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- hiring
- history
- hitl
- homomorphic
- honeycomb
- hot
- howto
- hp
- hpc
- hudi
- hugo
- humanitec
- hybrid-cloud
- hyde
- hype
- ibles-ables
- ibm
- iceberg
- ict
- idp
- ieee
- iframely
- ifttt
- iiot
- impactmapping
- industry
- information-centers
- infracost
- infrastructure
- inphinity
- insightsoftware
- intel
- internet
- interplanetary
- iot
- ipaas
- ipsec
- ipv4
- ipv6
- ism
- isovalent
- istio
- isv
- itc
- ixl
- jekyll
- jobs
- journalism
- journeys
- jsc
- jupyterlab
- k8s
- kentik
- knowledge-centers
- knowledge-graph
- labor
- lacework
- landing-zones
- landingzones
- latency
- layoffs
- learning
- life
- life-sciences
- link-rot
- linkerd
- linkrot
- links
- llm
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- llms
- loss
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- manufacturing
- mapping
- marine
- marketing
- marketplaces
- mastodon
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- media
- meetings
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- memes
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- microservices
- microsoft
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- mindmap
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- ml
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- mna
- mobile
- modelops
- momento
- monday
- monitoring
- mqqt
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- mtti
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- mttrr
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- mturk
- multicloud
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- music
- nasa
- nature
- netlify
- networking
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- news
- newsletter
- nexuslabs
- nexustek
- niche
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- nocode
- nortel
- nostalgia
- npm
- npu
- nsa
- ntp
- nvidia
- observability
- obsidian
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- openai
- opencensus
- opensource
- opentelemetry
- opentowork
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- oracle
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- organizations
- otel
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- pac
- pandas
- panelpicker
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- partners
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- people
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- permissible
- perplexity
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- ping
- pipelines
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- plants
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- platform
- platform engineering
- platform-engineer
- platform-engineering
- platforms
- plg
- plugins
- podcast
- polars
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- possible
- potpourri
- power
- precision
- present
- press
- presto
- primordial
- privacy
- private-cloud
- probes
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- product-engineering
- product-led-growth
- products
- profit
- project-liberty
- provenance
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- public-cloud
- publishing
- pulumi
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- python
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- qthrul
- quantum
- radiation
- rag
- readability
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- readwrite
- recruiting
- red-hat
- redmonk
- redshift
- reits
- relationalai
- remote-sensing
- remote-work
- remotesensing
- repatriation
- repeatable
- reporting
- resilience
- retail
- return-to-office
- revenue
- revops
- rfc
- ripe
- rivery
- roadie
- roadwarrior
- robotics
- roi
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- rss
- rti
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- rugged
- ruleof40
- ruleofx
- ruliad
- runtimes
- s3
- salesforce
- sambanova
- sap
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- satellite
- scada
- scale
- science
- scient
- security
- segmentation
- self
- seniormoments
- sensors
- sentiers
- sentintel-intelligence
- service-mesh
- service-provider
- serviceNow
- servicecatalog
- services
- sevenai
- sgrita
- shein
- shot-and-chaser
- sidecars
- signal
- signaling
- silo
- skywalking
- slack
- slg
- slo
- sneller
- snowflake
- soc
- social
- social-networks
- software
- solo
- sonos
- space
- spark
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- specialization
- spifd
- spifd2
- sponsorships
- spotify
- spreadsheet
- sre
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- standards
- starburst
- startups
- stashboards
- status
- stem
- stitch
- strategy
- streaming
- substack
- sun
- supercloud
- superconnector
- superset
- supplychain
- sustainability
- sustainable
- sxsw
- syndication
- synthetic-data
- systems
- tabular
- tackleio
- tailscale
- talent
- taos
- tco
- teams
- tech
- techmeme
- technical-writing
- technology
- techpress
- tecton
- telco
- telecom
- telecompetitor
- telemetry
- telepresence
- tenderdai
- terraform
- tetrate
- the-perfect-team
- thoughts
- throughput
- tigera
- tls
- toolchains
- tools
- traceroute
- training
- transportation
- travel
- travelperk
- trends
- trino
- tripit
- ubiquitous-workload-substrate
- ul
- unfinished
- uptime
- urls
- use-cases
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- ux
- valuation
- value
- vast
- vblock
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- video
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- visualizations
- vizlib
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- wardley-map
- wardley-mapping
- watching
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- xaas
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- ycombinator
- youtube
- zapier
- zero-trust
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- zettelkasten
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- zoom
- zpr
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- ztna