Software

• The AI trust crisis "Trust is really important."
• Bliki: TestDrivenDevelopment (Martin Fowler)

Web

• 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."

Blogs

• DateTime (xkcd) Well said!

Med Dev

• Updated FDA Cybersecurity Guidance: What’s Changed for Medical Devices? "First and foremost, it’s about protecting the patients. It’s about retaining their trust and making sure they receive the best care."
• WHO’s 6 Principles For An AI Regulatory Framework For Medical Product Development
• Resmed hails ‘significant victory’ as patent board rules in dispute with NYU (Nick Paul Taylor)
• In wake of Philips recall, senators urge review of FDA medical device oversight (Susan Kelly)

Med Dev

• Revealing the landscape of software as a medical device industry "SaMD is a billion-dollar market."
• The Most Overhyped Technologies in Healthcare (berci.mesko)
• Resmed’s new C-suite focused on growing sleep apnea device demand: analysts (Nick Paul Taylor)

Software

• TDD Isn’t Design (Kent Beck)
• 9 reasons SQL has got to go SQL is the cockroach of data. It will survive anything!
• Hanukkah of Data 2023/5784 (hwayne) Jewish Advent of Code
• Simplicity is better than complexity (carlana) "Complexity just happens and its costs are literally exponential."
• Don’t make Apache Kafka be your database "Kafka is complementary to your database, but should not be your database."

Med Dev

• Empatica aims to develop seizure-forecasting algorithm based on wearable data (Nick Paul Taylor) Also see the company site: Empatica
• Vivos receives FDA 510(k) clearance for oral devices to treat severe sleep apnea (Nick Paul Taylor) Non-surgical OSA treatment: Oral appliances coupled with specific therapeutic treatments.

Web

• Tech predictions for 2024 and beyond (Dr. Werner Vogels)

Software

• How Often Should We Sharpen Our Tools? (ltratt) Now you should try Emacs!
• You (probably) don’t need DateTime (scorpil) TL;DR Only to remind me that working with date/time is hard.
• Advent of Code 2023 (garritfra) I'm still working on 2022 puzzles!
• I Fight For The Users (Jeff Atwood) "I urge you, all of you, to disavow Twitter and never look at it again."

Web

• Paper: You Want My Password or a Dead Patient? (Fred Hebert) "endemic circumvention of password-based auth" Yikes!

Software

• Coding in the Shadows: Hidden Gems of Lisp, Clojure, and friends (Adam Schmideg) "Lisp just clicked with me." Ditto.
• What developers should know from the OpenAI saga "3 key takeaways: a multi-model strategy's necessity, emerging AI infra, LLMs as abstractions."
• Dependency rejection (amontalenti) DI: "programmers fretted about a future that usually never arrived" and "meta-distraction". Valid points, but as always, it depends on the situation.
• Why “API-first” might not be a good idea (Stefan Tilkov) 46 minute talk. Again, one size does not fit all.
• How to Build a Google Chrome Extension in 6 Steps Using ChatGPT (Bradley Owen Moodley) Sometime the urge surfaces, but then quickly subsides. Reference for scratching the future itch.

Emacs

• Irreal: Interactive Java (jcs) REPL driven development package

Med Dev

• ‘Fire, smoke, burns’: FDA warns about new safety risks for Philips CPAP machines (Elise Reuter) More trouble.

Wishing everyone a happy and healthy Thanksgiving holiday. 🦃

Med Dev

• Vital Signs: Digital Health Law Update | Fall 2023 - Lexology The regulatory landscape is overwhelming!
• Golden Years, Digital Gears: Digital Health For Aging Populations (Andrea Koncz)
• Q3 recap: Medtech firms grapple with layoffs, GLP-1s and China slowdown (Elise Reuter)
• Addressing cybersecurity risks in medical devices
• FDA-ordered report tackles how to manage cybersecurity risks of legacy devices

Software

• Project Valhalla: A look inside Java’s epic refactor Java language overhaul.
• The Roots of Today’s Modern Backend Engineering Practices (Gergely Orosz) A blast from the past!
• Why I Prefer Trunk-Based Development (Koen van Gilst) It's not a branching strategy, it's a feature management strategy.
• 20+ Years of .NET and Me (jeremydmiller) Time flies when you're having fun!
• Clever code is probably the worst code you could write "...great code is very clear and readable."
• Data-Driven Development is a Lie (Ivan Grishaev) Despite the clickbait, an informative Clojure data map design walk-through.

Emacs

• Eric MacAdie: 2023-11 Austin Emacs Meetup (Eric MacAdie) Always some fun Emacs tidbits.