26-May-2026 Content of Interest

Software

Notes on Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical on AI (Simon Willison) Interesting.
The Eternal Sloptember (George Hotz) "the adoption of AI agents into software development will be one of the most costly mistakes in the field’s history"
AI Eats the World presentation has been updated for May 2026 (Benedict Evans) "big presentation exploring macro and strategic trends in the tech industry"
Code was the smallest part of the job (Dr Milan Milanovi) "Code is a liability, not an asset. Every new line is a bill we need to pay."
Bliki: Vibe Coding (Martin Fowler) "With little attention to the code, vibed software can rapidly produce many lines of code of a very low quality."
TBM 423: Why Defining Teams Is So Hard (John Cutler) TL;DR, but love the drawing.

Why Ruby Still Feels Like Home After All These Years (Caio Bianchi) Yeah, Ruby is amazing in so many ways.
Don’t Outsource the Learning (Addy Osmani) "We are silently trading future capability for present-day speed"
Passkeys 101: An Introduction to Passkeys and How They Work (Scott Helme) Good summary.
The Emacsification of Software (Thomas and Erin) "Everything in Emacs is malleable."
What Coding Is Starting to Lose (Caio Bianchi) "The speed is valuable, but so is the slower process of actually understanding what you’re shipping."

There Are Always More of Them Before They Are Counted (Mike Fisher) "Ride Toward the Sound"
Symptoms of Bad Software Design (Marcos F. Lobo) "Rigidity, Fragility, Immobility, and Viscosity"
Learning Software Architecture (Alex Kladov) '“software design” is something best learned by doing'
What is Code (Martin Fowler) (Unmesh Joshi) "The role of coding is not disappearing. But it is changing."
Discover: A Love Letter To RSS (brine) "I love RSS too!
The Pulse: AI load breaks GitHub – why not other vendors? (Gergely Orosz) Yikes!
The Organization Is the Bottleneck (Sarah Wells) "When we moved to microservices, we learned quickly that you can’t just tell teams to “do the right thing” and hope for the best."
The Intolerable Hypocrisy of Cyberlibertarianism (Mathew Duggan) "The cyberlibertarian deal was always the same: you're on your own."

Thanos Apollo: The Most Emacs Bzr Saga (Thanos Apollo) Interesting history. RMS is quite the character!

The Muse Headband Review: Meditation 2.0 (berci.mesko) I played with a "Melon" headband and mobile app about 10 years ago.

Time to retire? (Eric Brechner) "You’re going to need new reasons to get out of bed and do stuff."
The Tension Between Velocity and Comprehension (Travis Lowdermilk) "AI is accelerating software delivery. Shared understanding may be the next bottleneck."
We are all beginners (Bart Wullems) "we are, in many ways, back at the novice stage."
“Open” doesn’t mean anything nowadays (La Vita Nouva) "Open is the most thoroughly hollowed-out term in the contemporary vocabulary of computing that I've ever seen."
Motivated reasoning (Mark Seemann) "a kind of cognitive bias where you arrive at conclusions beneficial to yourself"
Agentic Coding is Burning Me Out (Tony S.) "the human supervisors can't sustain the cognitive load"
Protect Your Shed (Dylan Butler) "Protect your personal projects at all costs."
The Psychological Costs of Adopting AI (Harvard Business Review) "understanding and building the right human infrastructure will be as important as picking the right AI tools"
Green Boots (Mike Fisher) Good cautionary tales.

The 20 Software Engineering Laws (Dr Milan Milanovi) "These laws are not rules that tell you what to do."
The Agent Stack Bet (Addy Osmani) "This is not a failure of the people building agents. It is a failure of the stack they’re building on."
Cognitive debt: The hidden risk in AI-driven software development (Abi Noda) "Cognitive debt is likely a much bigger threat than technical debt, as AI and agents are adopted."
Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career (Sean Goedecke) "It would really suck for software engineers if using AI made us worse at our jobs in the long term"
The Pulse: ‘Tokenmaxxing’ as a weird new trend (Gergely Orosz) Let's burn some money!
Software Eats Its Own (On my Om) "Money is in automating software."
Red-Teaming Your Strategy (Mike Fisher) "Certainty Is Not the Same as Correctness"

Selecting The Right eQMS To Maximize Quality Maturity - Med Device Online (Varun Venkatachalam, Jim Morris) "eQMS platforms must evolve beyond passive systems of record to active enablers of quality execution"