08-Jan-2024 Content of Interest

Software

Github Language Stats Popularity of programming languages on GitHub over time.
Bliki: Legacy Seam (Martin Fowler)
The Subtle Power of Teams (Ted Neward)
Architects & Tech Leads (Mike Fisher) It's complicated!

An Unreasonable Investment (rands) "Your career is not your job. It’s the humans you help along the way."

A writer’s Ruby (David Heinemeier Hansson) IMO enforcing style with consistency is a good thing.

Secure By Design And Default Compliant Medical Device Development "SBDD is a key component of how cybersecurity will be improved within cyber medical devices."

Successful RPM needs leading edge tech, thoughtful implementations Remote Patient Monitoring: "...breakthrough innovation where we can improve healthcare delivery, right-size clinician workloads and achieve better patient outcomes while improving quality of life."

The hardest part of building software is not coding, it’s requirements (Jared Toporek) AI is going to have a tough time with requirements, at least for now.

Irreal: Developing In Difficult Places (jcs) For my family "roughing it" is no room service. Just a lower bar I guess.

Commit to competence in this coming year (David Heinemeier Hansson) TIL "...about the beauty of the four Cs: Clarity, cohesion, consistency, and conciseness."

7 Misconceptions About Microfrontend (Temitope Oyedele) "Microfrontends offer enhanced flexibility, improved scalability, and streamlined development processes."
Advice for new software devs who’ve read all those other advice essays (crstry) Good read for any software developer.
Is “Wiring the Winning Organization” a book for you? Read my five takeaways and decide for yourself. (Richard Seroter) The older Gene Kim books aren't bad.
How Meta built the infrastructure for Threads (Laine Campbell, Chunqiang (CQ) Tang) Always interesting to read about these global-scale solutions.
Technical Debt is not real (JoelMcCracken) "It’s a metaphor, a way of thinking about the accumulated consequences of past decisions and shortcuts." That doesn't mean it's not real!
Implications of the failure of the Adobe-Figma deal. (Om Malik) "The innovation ecosystem depends on sustained outcomes — a positive outcome of even one in a hundred startups keeps the innovation engine chugging along."
Architecture Decision Records (ADR): Enhancing Software Development

Why hasn’t LinkedIn moved to Azure? (Tom Krazit)
Simple sabotage for software Tips "to destroy productivity for as long as you can without getting caught."