31-Mar-2026 Content of Interest

Software

Software, in a Time of Fear (Ed Lyons) "how to survive inside the AI revolution in software development, without succumbing to the fear that swirls around all of us"
Move GitHub Private Repos to Google Drive in Minutes (Tony Metzidis) No GitHub Actions, but still an interesting alternative for cloud storage.
Working on products people hate (Sean Goedecke) "Working on products people hate forces you to accept how little control individual engineers have over whether people like what they build."
Engineers do get promoted for writing simple code (Sean Goedecke) "Simple software engineering does get rewarded, and on balance will take you further in your career."
Which Design Doc Did a Human Write? (Michael Lynch) Interesting read.
Twitching Before You Sprint (Mike Fisher) I'm not a big fan of analogies, but interesting read nevertheless.
In Defense of Deep Reading (Brad Stulberg) "greater short-form video consumption was associated with significantly lower performance on cognitive tasks, poorer attention, and weaker self-control" Uh oh!

Choose Boring Technology and Innovative Practices (Hillel Wayne) "Tech is slow to change." Really?
Same Old (Robert Glazer) "The technology is new, but the level of disruption is not unprecedented."
From error-handling to structured concurrency (Nelson Elhage) "How do we organize our code to handle error conditions, in the presence of multiple concurrent tasks?"
Markdown Ate The World (Mathew Duggan) Hmmm.. No mention of org-mode! 😀
Understaffing as a form of enshittification (Cory Doctorow) "A way to shift value from workers, patients and shoppers to investors."
Adapting to AI: Reflections on Productivity (Colin Breck) Good read. "I Can’t Keep Up" - yep!

The 49MB Web Page (Shubham Bose) "And almost all modern news websites are guilty of some variation of anti-user patterns."

Charity Majors is unhappy (Charity Majors) Thoughtworks Feb Retreat: Observability matters.
Become Builders, Not Coders (Michael Werle) "The era of mostly manual coding has ended. IDEs, in their current form, are no longer necessary."
What OpenClaw Reveals About the Next Phase of AI Agents (Kesha Williams) "OpenClaw nailed three things that previous agent projects missed: proximity, creativity, and extensibility."
Grief and the AI Split (Les Orchard) Old habits die hard and everyone grieves differently.
The 8 Levels of Agentic Engineering (Bassim Eledath) "Your output depends more than you'd think on the level of your teammates."

Chicken or the Egg: Should Device Interoperability or QMS Interoperability Come First? (Carl Washburn) "As an integration project matures new QMS Interoperability requirements may arise from new connected device requirements."

FHIR: The important bits (David Hay) Good reference.
The AI agent will see you now (Tom Krazit) "helping doctors and health-care organizations use AI agents to automate busywork and focus on patient care"

I don’t know if I like working at higher levels of abstraction (Xe Iaso) "And "fine" is the enemy of everything I care about as a writer and an engineer." I get it, but this is not the future.
How Do You Know If You’re a Good Leader? (Mike Fisher) "The real test of leadership is whether you are willing to look at yourself with the same honesty you expect from others."
Returning To Rails in 2026 (Mark Dastmalchi-Round) "I highly recommend taking Rails out for a spin." I love Ruby too, but not so sure about this advice. Good read nevertheless.
The Brand Age (Paul Graham) Always informative. "Brand is what's left when the substantive differences between products disappear."
GitHub Actions Is Slowly Killing Your Engineering Team (Ian Duncan) "The Log Viewer, or: Where Your Afternoon Goes to Die"

Good news: AI Will Eat Application Software (Alex Immerman) "after all this panic has passed, we’ll see that AI is the best thing that ever happened to the software industry."
The Glossary You Must Read If You Wanna Talk About AI (Zvonimir Petkovic) Thank you!
Humans and Agents in Software Engineering Loops (Martin Fowler)
How to Kill the Code Review (Ankit Jain) "In this new paradigm, Specs become the source of truth. Code becomes an artifact of the spec."
The Software Development Lifecycle Is Dead (Boris Tane) "AI agents didn’t make the SDLC faster. They killed it."

An indie blog’s directory of indie blog directories (Curiositry) I love discovering off-beat content. RSS is cool!