13-May-2026 Content of Interest

Software

There Are Always More of Them Before They Are Counted (Mike Fisher) "Ride Toward the Sound"
Symptoms of Bad Software Design (Marcos F. Lobo) "Rigidity, Fragility, Immobility, and Viscosity"
Learning Software Architecture (Alex Kladov) '“software design” is something best learned by doing'
What is Code (Martin Fowler) (Unmesh Joshi) "The role of coding is not disappearing. But it is changing."
Discover: A Love Letter To RSS (brine) "I love RSS too!
The Pulse: AI load breaks GitHub – why not other vendors? (Gergely Orosz) Yikes!
The Organization Is the Bottleneck (Sarah Wells) "When we moved to microservices, we learned quickly that you can’t just tell teams to “do the right thing” and hope for the best."
The Intolerable Hypocrisy of Cyberlibertarianism (Mathew Duggan) "The cyberlibertarian deal was always the same: you're on your own."

Thanos Apollo: The Most Emacs Bzr Saga (Thanos Apollo) Interesting history. RMS is quite the character!

The Muse Headband Review: Meditation 2.0 (berci.mesko) I played with a "Melon" headband and mobile app about 10 years ago.

Time to retire? (Eric Brechner) "You’re going to need new reasons to get out of bed and do stuff."
The Tension Between Velocity and Comprehension (Travis Lowdermilk) "AI is accelerating software delivery. Shared understanding may be the next bottleneck."
We are all beginners (Bart Wullems) "we are, in many ways, back at the novice stage."
“Open” doesn’t mean anything nowadays (La Vita Nouva) "Open is the most thoroughly hollowed-out term in the contemporary vocabulary of computing that I've ever seen."
Motivated reasoning (Mark Seemann) "a kind of cognitive bias where you arrive at conclusions beneficial to yourself"
Agentic Coding is Burning Me Out (Tony S.) "the human supervisors can't sustain the cognitive load"
Protect Your Shed (Dylan Butler) "Protect your personal projects at all costs."
The Psychological Costs of Adopting AI (Harvard Business Review) "understanding and building the right human infrastructure will be as important as picking the right AI tools"
Green Boots (Mike Fisher) Good cautionary tales.

The 20 Software Engineering Laws (Dr Milan Milanovi) "These laws are not rules that tell you what to do."
The Agent Stack Bet (Addy Osmani) "This is not a failure of the people building agents. It is a failure of the stack they’re building on."
Cognitive debt: The hidden risk in AI-driven software development (Abi Noda) "Cognitive debt is likely a much bigger threat than technical debt, as AI and agents are adopted."
Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career (Sean Goedecke) "It would really suck for software engineers if using AI made us worse at our jobs in the long term"
The Pulse: ‘Tokenmaxxing’ as a weird new trend (Gergely Orosz) Let's burn some money!
Software Eats Its Own (On my Om) "Money is in automating software."
Red-Teaming Your Strategy (Mike Fisher) "Certainty Is Not the Same as Correctness"

Selecting The Right eQMS To Maximize Quality Maturity - Med Device Online (Varun Venkatachalam, Jim Morris) "eQMS platforms must evolve beyond passive systems of record to active enablers of quality execution"

34th volume of our Technology Radar (ThoughtWorks) "An opinionated guide to today's technology landscape"
The importance of people who care (Rachel Andrew) "Design systems and editorial style guides need people who care. "
Thank You For Being a Friend (Jeff Atwood)
How Software Engineering Principles Help You Get More Out of Your AI Tools (Telerik Blogs) Useful advice.
Byte - a visual archive This is awesome! "This zoomable map shows every page of every issue of BYTE starting from the front cover of the first issue (top left) to the last page of the final edition (bottom right)."
How to hire people who are better than you (Jason Cohen) "that’s the only way the organization grows stronger and smarter and better rather than just growing larger"
Agents, Code Reviews, and the Bottleneck Shift, Oh My! (Oren Eini) "Being able to evaluate multiple different approaches to a solution is crazy valuable."
Eat Your Words (On my Om) " the technology industry would benefit enormously from a more grounded vocabulary around AI"

Good sleep, good learning, good life (Dr Piotr Wozniak) Even the table of contents is TL;DR. Good stuff!
Sleep Deprived (Robert Glazer) "sleep deprivation destroys our ability to recognize that we need more sleep, creating a downward spiral."

Build the Right Thing (Mike Fisher) "great businesses are discovered before they are optimized"
Grief and the Nonprofessional Programmer (Mike Loukides) "I made the computer do what I wanted, but I lost the understanding of how it did it."
Productive procrastination (Max van IJsselmuiden) "our brains prefer novelty, and they protect us from the negative emotions tied to tasks we feel we have to do."
8 Tips for Writing Agent Skills (Philipp Schmid) Good tips.
Configuration flags are where software goes to rot (Frank Denis) "But temporary flags are rarely temporary. Once a flag exists, it starts attracting dependencies."
✉️ Content Hiatus (Justin Searls) I'm no longer optimizing for "reach," but rather "happiness.": How to be perfectly unhappy