Software

• How to Craft a Memorable Message, According to Science (Charan Ranganath, HBR) "The human brain can only keep a limited amount of information in mind at any given time."
• The death of the [modified] developer (Forrest Brazeal) Re: Steve Yegge's "The Death of the Junior Developer"
• Iterative Design (Mike Fisher) "the importance of allowing for quick failures and learning from them"
• The Clojure Paradox (Jorge Tovar) "focus on solving problems without the burden of unnecessary ceremony"
• Working with Protobuf in 2024 (Kevin McDonald) Workflows and tooling.

Web

• Children of You (David Heinemeier Hansson) "watching your own flesh and blood grow up, is a sublime experience." Indeed!

Software

• Predicting the Future of Distributed Systems (Colin Breck) "Object storage is becoming the database"
• No, really: YAGNI (Thorsten Ball) Mr. Obvious, but still something to always practice.
• Influences (Mike Fisher) Risk vs. Uncertainty. And helicopters.

Business

• I’ve Built My First Successful Side Project, and I Hate It (Sebastian Witowski) Informative read. Also, TIL about PineScript.

Med Dev

• Neuralink Says Second Brain Device Implant ’Went Well’ - BNN Bloomberg Future: "recognize handwriting intent to help patients write faster"

Web

• Continuous reinvention: A brief history of block storage at AWS (Dr. Werner Vogels) "a series of incremental improvements over time"

Software

• Bit-banging a BASIC Birthday Not sure why, but resurrecting old hardware/software is fun.
• Agile is not a process. (George Stocker) "Agile is a set of values and principles; it’s not a well-defined (or even an ill-defined) process"
• TBM 307: The “P” Word, Legitimacy, and Challenging Our Default Models and Frames (John Cutler) "P" word is political. Interesting read.
• Just use Postgres (Ethan McCue) (Ethan McCue) Nice list of alternatives and their pros/cons.

Emacs

• İsmail Efe: Why Use Emacs? (İsmail Efe Top) Nice summary of "Emacs propaganda"

Med Dev

• FDA Medical Device Security SBOMs: While Great, Don’t Rely On Them Alone - Forbes
• Artificial Intelligence’s Place in Healthcare: Transforming Patient Care (TechnologyHQ)

Web

• Software estimates have never worked and never will (David Heinemeier Hansson) "leave the scope open to negotiation during development"

Software

• Developers waste 8+ hours weekly on inefficiencies like technical debt (Milena Radivojević) Atlassian survey results overview.
• The Human Condition (Mike Fisher) Interesting read: "The human condition is a fascinating paradox."
• Think Better (Mike Loukides) "Creativity comes from the bottom up"
• Against Names (Steve Klabnik) TIL about jj
• When Your Boss Suddenly Reduces Your Scope (Dina Denham Smith, HBR) "avoid catastrophizing"
• The Pep Effect (Mike Fisher) "shift towards valuing systemic thinking and team cohesion over individual prowess."
• Primitive Obsession (Andrew Cairns) "Primitive Obsession is a code smell." So are mutable objects (says the FP guy).

Med Dev

• Nudge | Non-invasive neuromodulation Ultrasound neuromodulation "has begun to produce promising results." Also see Nudge - Quintin Frerichs.

Web

• LinkedIn Is Not Having an Identity Crisis. Jobs Are. "logging into LinkedIn more out of habit than necessity"

Software

• Y’all are sleeping on HTTP/3 "HTTP/3 abandons TCP in favor of a channel-aware UDP-based protocol called QUIC." Yeah, it does seem important.
• How I Use “AI” (Nicholas Carlini) It's a new world!
• Legacy code with really good tests is still legacy code (Oren Eini) Yep!
• “We ran out of columns” - The best, worst codebase "The database lives forever" 😀
• The Product Model and Org Design (Marty Cagan) "does a transformation to the product model necessitate a reorg?" Spoiler: no.
• Browsers, cookies and surfing the web: The quirky history of internet lingo (Erica Brozovsky)
• Questionable Advice: “My boss says we don’t need any engineering managers. Is he right?” (charity.wtf) Good read.

Startups

• Raw intuitions about startups (Gordon Brander) #1: "Start with product and work backwards to technology"

Med Dev

• What is a DHF? (Robert Packard)