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"Technical communities provide software businesses with an audience, a test bed, and eventually, a customer pool for their products and services, but this only works if the products are good enough to begin with. This insight was clearly defined by Guy Kawasaki, arguably the person who invented the field of Developer Relations, during his tenure as Chief Evangelist at Apple from 1983 to 1987."

Guy Kawasaki
There is a website out there providing an answer to the question "What is Developer Relations?," a question that this author, whose job title is precisely that one, gets a lot. According to this resource, Developer Relations is an umbrella term encompassing three major areas of activity: "Community," "Content," and "Product;" a perfect description of a job role, at least as far as this author is concerned.

How long after a sovereign ruler of a repressive state murders one of your columnists should you make a deal with him?
The answer, it turns out, is a little over six years.
https://www.theverge.com/amazon/667916/jeff-bezos-amazon-saudi-arabia-jama…

Jeff Bezos makes his most ghoulish deal yet
How long after a nation-state murders one of your columnists is it appropriate to make a multibillion-dollar deal with it? For Bezos: five years.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #StreetSounds
2Pac:
🎵 Ambitionz az a Ridah
#2Pac
https://kueskues.bandcamp.com/track/2pac-ambitionz-az-a-ridah-kueskues-bootleg
https://open.spotify.com/track/5g9lS8deSIxItFBmZRC4vN
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Kazakhstan condemns Ukraine over strike on Novorossiysk oil terminal: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/30/kazakhstan-condemns-ukraine-over-strike.html

Flow lines, a project from earlier this year.

Made a bunch of revisions to the Sigalert game. All vibe coded with Claude 4.5
https://frater-pedurabo.itch.io/sigalert

SIGALERT by frater-pedurabo
A 3D wireframe driving game.

Made a bunch of revisions to the Sigalert game. All vibe coded with Claude 4.5
https://frater-pedurabo.itch.io/sigalert

Tonight I set up two AIs in dialogue to recapitulate the 1969 video (staged) debate between artists Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson's "East Coast West Coast" (https://www.ubu.com/film/smithson_east.html). PM me for a link and password.

My latest project is up. Two AIs talk to each other about art discourse in the manner of the famous Holt-Smithson dialogue of 1969. Contact me for a link and password.
https://varnelis.net/works_and_projects/east-coast-west-coast-after-bob-and-nancy/

East Coast West Coast (after Bob and Nancy) - varnelis.net
In 1969, Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson made a 24-minute video in which they improvised a dialogue playing stereotypical positions in the American art world. Holt performed the role of an intellectual, conceptual New York artist; Smithson played an intuitive California artist. He talks about riding ten bicycles, dropping acid, eating organic food, and visiting ...