Bci

• Big Tech Wants to Harvest Your Thoughts (James Crawford) "Now noninvasive, wearable brain scanners are beginning to proliferate beyond the lab"

Med Dev

• The hardware gap is why legacy medical devices struggle with modern connectivity (John O’Gorman) "pressure to add IoT connectivity to devices that were never designed for it."
• Making AI work in a regulated MedTech industry - Med-Tech Insights (Mahesh Wale) "The FDA has authorised more than 1,400 AI and machine learning-enabled devices, up from around 950 in 2024."

Software

• Introduction to Post-training (Sharon Zhou) Informative.
• AI Coding Has Erased the Supposed Advantage of Statically Typed Languages (Huahai) "To an AI, languages differ primarily in how much code, and therefore how many tokens, it must generate to express the same idea."
• When a Missed Message Becomes a Missed Meal (Global Technology) "How hard can it be to just keep track of the order?"
• AI is removing the middle class of software engineering (Florian Herrengt) "You can't afford bad engineers anymore"

Bci

• Why I’m leaving OpenAI to build telepathy (Naomi Bashkansky) "thought-to-text models, trained on non-invasive neural data." Conduit

Software

• Negative-interest tech debt (Jesse Duffield) "That is, with sufficient AI progress, the interest on your tech debt is sub-zero."
• The Dark Night of Mathematics (Kirwin Hampshire) "LLMs are eating the world!"
• some software talks i like (Charlotte Som) Good list.
• The End of No Code (Philip Zeyliger) "The SaaSpocalypse is under way"
• The Shape of Things to Come (Steve Yegge) TL;DR, but "Emacs is effectively a full operating system with one of the most sophisticated scripting environments the world has ever seen."

Med Dev

• FDA Clears VoxNeuro’s EEG-Based Cognitive Assessment Software | NeurologyLive

Web

• Modern browsers don’t really need the cookie anymore. (Kuber Mehta) I figured.

Med Dev

• The FDA was all in on AI. Will that change? (Kelly Bilodeau) "High-level turnover has introduced uncertainty about how quickly the FDA’s agency-wide AI strategy will move forward."
• New Sleep Monitoring Device Tracks Brain Cleansing (Alex Music) "Monitoring the elusive activity of the glymphatic system could aid Alzheimer’s research"
• AI needs a quality management system - MedTech World (Bob Bouthillier) "validating the complete architecture in which deterministic software and AI operate together"

Software

• Writing by Hand is Good for your Brain (Neal Stephenson) "Not for everyone, but still an interesting read."
• What side projects have you enjoyed the most? "Lots of interesting projects."
• Zugunruhe (Mike Fisher) "pronounced roughly zook-oon-roo-ha. Migratory restlessness. Zug, to move. Unruhe, unrest."
• The Productivity Mirage "But ultimately what matters most is solving the right problems."

Med Dev

• How to reduce risk in medical devices
• 9 best requirements management tools for medical device development (2026) - TNW
• China’s brain-computer interface sector achieves accelerating progress - Xinhua

Software

• Does code quality still matter? (Mark Seemann) "Code quality matters to human programmers because of cognitive constraints."
• Why care about programming languages (Eduardo Bellani) "In the AI age, understanding these concepts becomes more important, not less"
• The Vital Few (Mike Fisher) "In any scientific field, Price argued, half the published papers would come from the square root of the total number of authors."
• Are PMs becoming irrelevant? (David Pereira) "PMs who insist on writing better user stories, polishing PRDs, or curating the backlog will become irrelevant."
• The Power Of “Why?” (Jason Gorman) "Remember that in a decision tree, each decision constrains possible future decisions."
• The Prototype Is a Question, Not a Product (Juan Cruz Martinez) "Before anyone prompts an agent, define what the prototype may prove"

Web

• Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail (Fabien Sanglard) "Retro computer heaven!"

Software

• You Just Hired a Million Bad Employees (George Sivulka) "For the first time in history, humans are cheaper than software."
• A Small Problem (Mike Fisher) "And the broadcast is a separate job from solving the problem." "
• In defense of not understanding your codebase (Sean Goedecke) "In fact, in large systems a partial understanding is the best you can do."
• Good Tools Are Invisible (Ginger Bill) "You cannot have an honest conversation about a tool with someone who’s decided the tool is part of their personality."
• The Future Worth Building Is Human (Thinking Machines Lab) "To be the master of the machine, you have to have the knowledge and the skills to teach the machine."
• Multi-Tenancy Isn’t About Databases (Derek Comartin) Good trade-offs overview. "Multi-Tenancy Is About Boundaries"
• Obfuscated, self-evaluating bash script by CDN Akamai being supplied to consumers via retail stores (Tris Sherliker) Fun!

Med Dev

• Why Medical Device Compliance Is Growing More Important Every Year (Steve Alder)
• The Challenges of Integrating AI into Medical Devices (Contributing Writer)
• China’s BrainCo bets brain tech is a headband, not surgery (Ana Maria Constantin) "The surgery gets the headlines, but the headband is the thing likely to end up on millions of heads."