Software

• What caused the large AWS outage? (Gergely Orosz) Detailed explaination. TL;DR, but interesting.
• Technical Debt vs. Architecture Debt: Don’t Confuse Them (Nadzeya Stalbouskaya) "Architecture debt hides in plain sight."
• Changes to Advent of Code starting this December I've never made it past day 5, so 12 is no problem here!
• Programming With Less Than Nothing (Josh Moody) Why?
• The Accountability Problem (James Shore) Good read.
• Using connection colors in SQL Server Management Studio to prevent database disasters (Bart Wullems) Handy tip.

Med Dev

• Resmed CEO Mick Farrell explains rebrand, ’digital revolution’ - MassDevice (Sean Whooley)
• CoMind raises $102.5M to develop non-invasive bedside brain monitor (Nick Paul Taylor)
• Four Scenarios For The Future of Smart Rings (berci.mesko) "roles in digital health, mainstream adoption, privacy implications, and integration into broader tech and medical ecosystems."

Software

• Understanding Spec-Driven-Development: Kiro, spec-kit, and Tessl (Birgitta Böckeler)
• The Architect’s Dilemma (Heiko Hotz)
• The cost of design iteration in software engineering (Oren Eini)
• The illegible nature of software development talent (Lorin Hochstein)

Med Dev

• 5 AI takeaways from AdvaMed’s conference - RamaOnHealthcare (Elise Reuter) "Focus on outcomes over flashy tech"

Med Dev

• The Evolution Of Portable ECGs (Pranavsingh Dhunnoo)

Web

• Thank you for being annoying (Adam Mastroianni) "I think annoyance, like cholesterol, has a good kind and a bad kind."

Software

• How to check for overlapping intervals (Mikael Zayenz Lagerkvist)
• 🔗 People jumped to conclusions about this RubyGems thing (Justin Searls)
• The Importance of Leadership (Mike Fisher)
• TBM 382: Product-Centricity When You Don’t Sell A Digital Product (John Cutler)
• Scaling Engineering Teams: Lessons from Google, Facebook, and Netflix (Ido Green)

Bci

• Neuralink Has a Huge Patient Waitlist. Bring on the Robot Surgeons (Emily Forlini)

Software

• Care and Swear (Mike Fisher) Good cop, bad cop, all rolled into one.
• The Software Essays that Shaped Me (Michael Lynch) Good book summaries.
• Getting AI to Work in Complex Codebases (Dexter Horthy) "I am now fully convinced that AI for coding is not just for toys and prototypes, but rather a deeply technical engineering craft."
• Leading Through Ambiguity (Mike Fisher) "Ambiguity isn’t the enemy; pretending it isn’t there is."

Web

• Development gets better with Age (Dr. Werner Vogels) "As an older developer, you’ve also seen patterns repeat themselves… constantly."
• Greenland is a beautiful nightmare (Mathew Duggan) Good read. "It is the closest I have ever felt to living a sci-fi type experience."
• GenAI Predictions (Tim Bray) Pragmatic point of view.

Med Dev

• Natus expands neurodiagnostic AI capabilities with Holberg buy - MassDevice

Science

• Say Hello to the 2025 Ig Nobel Prize Winners (Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica) TIL about the "physics of pasta sause".

Software

• Fifty Years of Open Source Software Supply-Chain Security (Russ Cox) "We all have more work to do."
• Java Language Architect Brian Goetz on How Java Could Evolve (David Cassel) "The Philosophy of a ‘Growable’ Language"
• The Purpose of Prototypes (Marty Cagan) Deep dive.
• self-reliant programmer manifesto (Vitaly Kurin) "Being self-reliant makes you more responsible for your own destiny"

Web

• It’s still censorship (even if it doesn’t violate the First Amendment) (Cory Doctorow) "Communications monopolies create single points of failure."
• One Compliment (rands) Great job Rands! 😀
• What Counts as an Iteration? (Curiositry) TL;DR, but an intereting read nevertheless.