Ai

• AI and IP: Considerations for medtech - Med-Tech Innovation [Med Dev] "...developing a comprehensive AI policy is essential."
• 3 predictions for AI in healthcare in 2024 (Aashima Gupta- Google) [Software]

Med Dev

• Your pacemaker and open source software • The Register - Theregister Pick your poison: proprietary or open source software.
• How Will SBOMs Help Secure the IoT Device Environment? - Spiceworks
• Best Of CES Health Tech 2024: From Medical Tricorders To AI-Powered Mirrors (Andrea Koncz)

Software

• Reliable Architectures Through Observability (Kent Quirk) Good read.

Web

• The tech layoffs continue (David Heinemeier Hansson) "There are no good firings, just degrees of awful ones."

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!

Blogs

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

Web

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

Med Dev

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

Health It

• 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."

Software

• 2024 Tech Predictions (Ted Neward)
• A lesson from every language I’ve used (Joep Schuurkes)
• 4 billion if statements (amw-zero) What the heck!?!

Blogs

• Seven Steps to Fixing Stalled To-Do Tasks (rands) Easier said than done.

Web

• 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.

Emacs

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

Software

• GitHub Actions Feels Bad (alper) 26 minute video
• Weird Ruby: Mixing Code and Data (Bozhidar Batsov) Cool!
• The Hum of the Machine (Thorsten Ball)
• Tech and the Twilight of Democracy (Mathew Duggan) No happy holidays here!
• The unfortunate math behind consulting companies

Med Dev

• #9 - Medical device cybersecurity - Today’s Medical Developments
• Resmed posts notice about risk of mask magnets interfering with medical implants (Nick Paul Taylor)
• Roundup: Cyber incidents, vulnerabilities hit the medtech sector in 2023 (Ricky Zipp)

Web

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

Science

• The Race to Put Brain Implants in People Is Heating Up (Emily Mullin)

Med Dev

• 5 Things We Learnt About Investments In Digital Health: Our E-book (Pranavsingh Dhunnoo)

Software

• 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