Med Dev

• Why you cannot vibe code your way to a successful connected product - IOT Insider "Success lies in a combination of fast building and deep customer understanding."
• When is software not just software? - AdvaMed® "how should the law treat software that is distinct from, but connected to, the products it supports?"

Software

• Anti-Patterns in Software Blogging (Michael Lynch) "Write the way you talk."
• How to read code (Sean Goedecke) "People are bad at reading code"
• The results of the 2026 Developer Survey are here! (Ryan Donovan)
• Open Source, a relic, a charity or still the thing? (Oskar Dudycz) "In our industry, giant companies stand on the shoulders of a small group of passionate, regular folks."
• Fragments: October 4 (Martin Fowler) Note to self: Watch Forbidden Planet
• A fascinating perspective (Daniel Lemire) "How do you feel about AI? A common sentiment is that of a loss."

Bci

• Pretraining on 50,000 Hours of Unlabeled Brain Data (Neuralink) "Calibration: a Sisyphean task"

Software

• Redesign without fear (Mark Seemann) "One effective method is side-by-side implementation work."
• The Code Nobody Reads (Addy Osmani) "Line-by-line review is going away. Whatever replaces it has to earn the trust reading used to provide."
• The Pulse: RoR creator sparks new “death of coding by hand” debate (Ivan Klaric) "DHH’s keynote chose a spicy topic for a conference attended by engineers who are personally and professionally invested in the craft of building software!"
• The Future of Software May Be Conversational Rather Than Autonomous (Robert Englander) "Entire startups are now built around the assumption that the natural end state of AI is autonomy."
• Bliki: Sensible Default (Martin Fowler) "The term “sensible default” is a deliberate contrast to “best practice”."
• 2026 in LLMs (so far) (Simon Willison) Yikes!
• A Roman name for software (Marcos Magueta) "When all of this dies, as every fever eventually does, will anyone still remember the true names around the ruins?"

Med Dev

• How Remote Patient Monitoring is Transforming Healthcare (Sam Robinson) "IoT-powered remote patient monitoring devices are powering the shift to home-centric care – and closing care gaps in rural and underserved areas"
• Top 11 Healthcare App Development Companies in 2026 "The right partner brings domain knowledge, compliance expertise, and technical depth."

Software

• An Ode to Showing Up (Brad Stulberg) "It doesn’t matter the pursuit; you’ve got to show up."
• If we do not stop to help each other, what do we become? (Jeff Atwood)
• Who Is Open Source About? (Glyph Lefkowitz) "Open source comprises a complex social web of ongoing relationships, not a simple one-way “gift” of value from maintainer to user."
• You should all be asking way more questions (Sean Goedecke) "you should all be trying harder to actually understand what you’re hearing"
• TBM 441: AI, the Loss of Positive Friction, and What to Do About It (John Cutler) "And how can you embrace new technologies without losing the good things?"
• The Pulse: a new trend of CPU shortages (Ivan Klaric) "It seems like this issue has spread everywhere as a corollary of widespread AI adoption."
• MongoDB: One write, two logs (Frane Jelavic) "It gives me a way to examine a recommendation instead of accepting it because the source sounds confident, and we all know AI can sound like that."
• Leave the Class Path in the Rearview Mirror (Netflix Technology Blog) "Introducing composable, module system native and agent friendly command line tools for modern Java development"
• Expected Goals (Mike Fisher) "Nobody counts the losers, and the losers are the denominator."
• Analyzing Jev, a new AI model (Senko Rašić) "It's not an LLM. It doesn't generate text or pictures, but could be very useful for a number of use cases."
• Jev introduces a new shape of LLM - System One, aka Decision Models (Simon Willison) "Think of Jev as a frontier-intelligence function call: unstructured state in, typed probabilistic decisions out."

Software

• Where do AI norms come from? (Charity Majors) "Start by listening."
• Grit your teeth and ship it (Sean Goedecke) "if you have a gift for building, you’re likely to be worse at shipping"
• a very long Mark Zuckerberg profile (Jeremy Stern) TL;DR, but a great read if you have the time.
• Regulate and Standardize AI? Nope. (Tim Bray) "Wait for the bubble to pop, then we'll find out."
• Who owns my stack? (Chris Amico) "The nature of software is churn, and the internet doubly so."
• I don’t like LLMs (Martin Fowler) "an LLM that’s not just making a pretense of being human, but also posing as the kind of human I walk away from."
• The Interfaces Are Arriving (Tommy Tran) "Agent systems now have their first interfaces that competitors jointly govern and independently implement."
• Same People (Mike Fisher) "who was on the team mattered less than how the team worked together"
• The Feature Flag Graveyard: How a Safety Net Becomes Technical Debt (codecraftdiary) "Feature flag debt is far more insidious because it masquerades as risk mitigation."

Software

• We are all Product Engineers now (Laurie Voss) "The job of making software will become what the agents can’t do"
• Make it anyway (Joel Auterson) "I can keep making things the way I enjoy, keep learning, keep doing it the hard way, for no real concrete reason other than I want to do it."
• I like ‘em thick (Adam Mastroianni) "If something has survived for centuries, then there’s probably something to it."
• The Brake, and Who Gets to Press It? (Shannon) "I told it I wished AI would not act like humans."
• I Am a Flat-Rate Monthly Responsibility Service (Mathew Duggan) "My new job is to watch the robot work."

Med Dev

• Generative AI Is Coming to Medical Devices. FDA Is Already Thinking About What Comes Next. (Jennifer German) "Rethinking How AI-Enabled Devices Are Evaluated"