Software

• Spikiness (Mike Fisher) "Evolution is survival."
• GitHub in 2025 (Stephen O’Grady) "Each new tool that has its moment in the sun"
• the terminal of the future (Jynn Nelson) Interesting. Lots of considerations.
• Four years on writing a tech book: pitching to a publisher (Gergely Orosz) Yikes! Why would anyone want to write a book!
• Build better software to build software better (David Reed) "We fixed this problem by combining modern, high-performance build tooling (Bazel) with classic software engineering principles."
• The Case That A.I. Is Thinking (James Somers) "ChatGPT does not have an inner life. Yet it seems to know what it’s talking about."

Med Dev

• Software Version Control for Medical Devices
• Which Are the Top 16 Medical Device Security Companies in 2025?

Software

• A fresh look at the Spring Framework (Matthew Tyson) "The iconic Java framework has evolved and modernized, integrating a host of new features without sacrificing power or simplicity."
• Hero’s Journey (Mike Fisher) "Every company needs one"
• Architects Among Us: The Many Shapes of Software Architecture (Adron Hall) "A software architect’s real job is to balance competing forces."
• Why Engineers Can’t Be Rational About Programming Languages (Steve Francia) "these decisions are rarely about technology"
• A Soiree into Symbols in Ruby (Vinay Keerthi) I love Ruby minutiae.

Blogs

• Become the Consequence (rands) "Feels like impending doom?"

Med Dev

• First High-Bandwidth Brain–Computer Interface Achieved Without Open Surgery (Michael Barbella)
• From Vulnerability to Violation: FDA Cybersecurity Requirements for Medical Devices and …

Software

• Comparing interviews at 8 large tech companies (Gergely Orosz) Interesting.
• What is MCP Really? (Tomas Fernandez) Simple explanation.
• I want to see the claw (Vicki Boykis) "software that is elegant, well-built, considered and thoughtful. Software that is joyful to use. Software that helps me."

Emacs

• Elfeed Curate Update: Two new features (Bob) Great stuff! 😀

Web

• What is USSD (and who cares)? (Dr. Werner Vogels) "As builders, it’s our job to abstract away the complex, to find elegant solutions for hard problems."

Med Dev

• Discussion Points from The (AI) MedTech Conference - Medical Product Outsourcing (Sean Fenske)
• Conducting a Medical Device Security Risk Assessment - MedCity News (Bob Barrett)
• The Digital Evolution Of Sleep Tracking (Pranavsingh Dhunnoo)

Software

• What caused the large AWS outage? (Gergely Orosz) Detailed explaination. TL;DR, but interesting.
• Technical Debt vs. Architecture Debt: Don’t Confuse Them (Nadzeya Stalbouskaya) "Architecture debt hides in plain sight."
• Changes to Advent of Code starting this December I've never made it past day 5, so 12 is no problem here!
• Programming With Less Than Nothing (Josh Moody) Why?
• The Accountability Problem (James Shore) Good read.
• Using connection colors in SQL Server Management Studio to prevent database disasters (Bart Wullems) Handy tip.

Med Dev

• Resmed CEO Mick Farrell explains rebrand, ’digital revolution’ - MassDevice (Sean Whooley)
• CoMind raises $102.5M to develop non-invasive bedside brain monitor (Nick Paul Taylor)
• Four Scenarios For The Future of Smart Rings (berci.mesko) "roles in digital health, mainstream adoption, privacy implications, and integration into broader tech and medical ecosystems."

Software

• Understanding Spec-Driven-Development: Kiro, spec-kit, and Tessl (Birgitta Böckeler)
• The Architect’s Dilemma (Heiko Hotz)
• The cost of design iteration in software engineering (Oren Eini)
• The illegible nature of software development talent (Lorin Hochstein)

Med Dev

• 5 AI takeaways from AdvaMed’s conference - RamaOnHealthcare (Elise Reuter) "Focus on outcomes over flashy tech"