02-Mar-2026 Content of Interest

Med Dev

Why Do We Lose Motivation? "The Neuroscience Behind Motivation, Brain Chemistry, and Behavior" Interesting.
Sleep Tech Demand Fuels ResMed - AlphaStreet News "ResMed operates at the intersection of healthcare devices, software, and data analytics."
Tackling Cybersecurity Threats in Healthcare - Medical Device and Diagnostic industry (Partha Anbil) Good overview.

Nobody knows how the whole system works (Lorin Hochstein) "our knowledge of these systems will always be partial, at best. Yes, AI will make this situation worse."
Yes, and (Carson Gross) "Given AI, should I still consider becoming a computer programmer?"
Humans Are for Ideas, AI Is for Execution (Olivia Moore) "Every time it needs an idea, it comes back to me."
Strategic choices: When both options are good (Jason Cohen) "Welcome to strategy, where you make hard choices."

The looming demise of the 10x developer (Justin Searls) "Why an era of enthusiast programmers is coming to an end."
Lines of Code Are Back (And It’s Worse Than Before) (Allan MacGregor)
The era of bespoke apps (Mike Crittenden) "The future is wild." Indeed!
No Skill. No Taste. (The Crow’s Nest) "This is the illusion of the lower barrier of entry, the barrier has always been taste and LLMs do nothing to remove this barrier."
The Rise and Fall of Scala: A Love Letter to the Language That Broke My Heart (Naveen Gupta) I hope this doesn't happen to Clojure!

3 lessons learned from developing a novel neurotechnology device (Skyler Rivera)
The Challenge of Evaluating AI Products in Healthcare | TechPolicy.Press (Danny Tobey, Ashley Carr, Vernessa Pollard, Michael Atleson) "developers and deployers should ensure that marketing claims are backed up by reliable testing and that they’ve identified and mitigated any substantial risks to users"
The Future Of Band-Aids: Current And Future Examples (Pranavsingh Dhunnoo)

Speed Trap (Forrest Brazeal) "keep a close eye on your speedometer" 😀
Becoming the Wolf (Rob Conery) Good read.
Bliki: Host Leadership (Martin Fowler) Good alternate model.
Bias Toward Action (Addy Osmani) "your job isn’t to ship code. It’s to ship code that works."
Babashka 1.12.215: Revenge of the TUIs (Michiel Borkent)
After all the hype, some AI experts don’t think OpenClaw is all that exciting (Amanda Silberling) The trough of disillusionment already?

Healthcare Software Development Guide 2026 (Manish Chandra Srivastava) "Modern medicine now runs on code."

The future of software engineering (/thoughtworks) Retreat findings and strategic insights
The Final Bottleneck (Armin Ronacher) "whenever a bottleneck was removed, innovation happened downstream from that"
AI is slowly munching away my passion (Dimitris Zervas) "AI has robbed me of credibility."
The AI Vampire (Steve Yegge) "Being in the same room with AI is draining people."
Besieged (Stephen O’Grady) "The real world implications are much broader, hence the anxiety, apprehension and fear associated with increased use of AI."
42% of Code Is Now AI-Assisted! (Anastasija Uspenski) This is just the beginning!
Getting the main thing right (Sean Goedecke) "you should spend a lot of time and effort trying to figure out what to focus on"

RIP Low-Code 2014-2025 (Zack Liscio) Good riddance!
Death of Software. Nah. (Steven Sinofsky) "Strap in. This is the most exciting time for business and technology, ever."
Large tech companies don’t need heroes (Sean Goedecke) "In large tech companies, good software often seems like it is produced by accident"
Simple Made Easy (Rich Hickey) Reminder to watch this great video regularly.
Java in 2026: still boring, still powerful, still printing money (Paulo Victor Gomes) "Java still rocks."
Programming is Dead: The Future of Software Engineering (Hampton Lintorn-Catlin) The Jacquard loom was a game changer in the fabrics industry. Beware of analogies though!

Humanity’s last programming language Hmm... Interesting.
Insomnia isn’t a waste of time (Curiositry) "We all know how important good sleep is for good health"