Med Dev

• The Evolution Of Portable ECGs (Pranavsingh Dhunnoo)

Web

• Thank you for being annoying (Adam Mastroianni) "I think annoyance, like cholesterol, has a good kind and a bad kind."

Software

• How to check for overlapping intervals (Mikael Zayenz Lagerkvist)
• 🔗 People jumped to conclusions about this RubyGems thing (Justin Searls)
• The Importance of Leadership (Mike Fisher)
• TBM 382: Product-Centricity When You Don’t Sell A Digital Product (John Cutler)
• Scaling Engineering Teams: Lessons from Google, Facebook, and Netflix (Ido Green)

Bci

• Neuralink Has a Huge Patient Waitlist. Bring on the Robot Surgeons (Emily Forlini)

Software

• Care and Swear (Mike Fisher) Good cop, bad cop, all rolled into one.
• The Software Essays that Shaped Me (Michael Lynch) Good book summaries.
• Getting AI to Work in Complex Codebases (Dexter Horthy) "I am now fully convinced that AI for coding is not just for toys and prototypes, but rather a deeply technical engineering craft."
• Leading Through Ambiguity (Mike Fisher) "Ambiguity isn’t the enemy; pretending it isn’t there is."

Web

• Development gets better with Age (Dr. Werner Vogels) "As an older developer, you’ve also seen patterns repeat themselves… constantly."
• Greenland is a beautiful nightmare (Mathew Duggan) Good read. "It is the closest I have ever felt to living a sci-fi type experience."
• GenAI Predictions (Tim Bray) Pragmatic point of view.

Med Dev

• Natus expands neurodiagnostic AI capabilities with Holberg buy - MassDevice

Science

• Say Hello to the 2025 Ig Nobel Prize Winners (Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica) TIL about the "physics of pasta sause".

Software

• Fifty Years of Open Source Software Supply-Chain Security (Russ Cox) "We all have more work to do."
• Java Language Architect Brian Goetz on How Java Could Evolve (David Cassel) "The Philosophy of a ‘Growable’ Language"
• The Purpose of Prototypes (Marty Cagan) Deep dive.
• self-reliant programmer manifesto (Vitaly Kurin) "Being self-reliant makes you more responsible for your own destiny"

Web

• It’s still censorship (even if it doesn’t violate the First Amendment) (Cory Doctorow) "Communications monopolies create single points of failure."
• One Compliment (rands) Great job Rands! 😀
• What Counts as an Iteration? (Curiositry) TL;DR, but an intereting read nevertheless.

Web

• Becoming the person who does the thing (Fred Rivett) "Your actions follow your self-beliefs."

Software

• The Death of Product Management. (Joe Smiley) "Product Management isn’t dying, it’s evolving."

• How Culture Scales (or Doesn’t) (Mike Fisher) "Culture doesn’t scale by accident."

• The evolution of platform engineering: Lessons from the trenches (Rickey Zachary) "the goal remains the same: help teams build and deliver value faster, safer and with confidence."

Med Dev

• China’s Brain Implant Startups Take On Musk’s Neuralink in New Tech Race (Amber Tong, Saritha Rai) "America's leadership in brain technology is being challenged by Chinese startups with the support of a full-throttle policy drive."

Software

• Solve Customer Problems (Mike Fisher) "What problem is this solving?"
• Meet the new boss (Eric Brechner) Good advice.
• The Secret to Building a High-Performing Team (JP Pawliw, HBR) Unlocking the last 8%.
• Why rational humans make irrational decisions (Bart Wullems) "sunk cost fallacy – our tendency to continue investing in failing ventures simply because we've already invested so much."
• If I hear “design pattern” one more time, I’ll go mad (Alisa Sireneva) "Patterns are useful, but it doesn’t make sense to focus on them"

Web

• 30 minutes with a stranger (Alvin Chang) Addictive! Lot's of other interesting topics to explore.

Ai

• The LLM Experience Gap (Joe Marshall)

Med Dev

• Verily’s Restructuring and Strategic Shift Toward Independence: Evaluating the Long-Term … (Eli Grant) From Hardware to Software