04-Sep-2025 Content of Interest

Software

Frameworks (Mike Fisher) "frameworks can broadly be described as handrails for thinking"
Lisp Still Matters (Joe Marshall) "Lisp's enduring appeal to expert programmers lies in its powerful, foundational design."
Legacy tech is hard to kill (Ron Miller) "66% of enterprise hardware decision-makers reported mainframe usage."!
Java’s not dead, but it’s definitely been zombified () "surviving isn’t the same as thriving"

Neuralink’s Bid to Trademark ‘Telepathy’ and ‘Telekinesis’ Faces Legal Issues (Emily Mullin) Neuralink's Telepathy product is "designed to allow paralyzed people the ability to operate their phones and computers with just their thoughts."
Under-the-Skin Electrode Allows for Real-World Epilepsy Tracking (Michael Barbella) Subcutaneous Electroencephalography (sqEEG)
Seluna launches large-scale medical tech study for kids sleep apnea (Rowan Dunne)

Some thoughts on LLMs and Software Development (Martin Fowler)
Open Source is one person (Josh Bressers) "Almost all open source is literally one person."
The reality of AI-Assisted software engineering productivity (Addy Osmani) "Adoption Soars, trust plummets"
Small Bets (Mike Fisher) "Make that bet. Observe. Adjust. And then make the next one."
Tag-based logging (Roman Kashitsyn) “Common sense advice.”

China Is Building a Brain-Computer Interface Industry (Emily Mullin) "We just want to build something useful for patients."

Email is Easy (Jack Bearheart) Well, not really. Take the quiz.
The System Inside the System (Scott Werner) Ruby meets AI: "What's the Rails moment for AI agents?"
50 things I know (Cate Hall) Good read. Like #18: "Ideas are cheap and easy to find; execution is everything."
The 5 Most Common REST API Design Mistakes (and How to Avoid Them) (Milan Jovanović) "know your tradeoffs and own them"
Why Writing Matters (to the Technical Professional) (Ted Neward)

Brain-Computer Interfaces In Healthcare: Current Promise And Future Potentials (Pranavsingh Dhunnoo)
Software to Bolster the Security of Medical Devices (Bob Kronemyer) "Medical device security lags behind modern threats, with 80% of software built on vulnerable open-source code."

All the cool kids are doing it (Jamie Brandon) "LLMs would be the only tool I use that would get more expensive the more I rely on them."
How GLP-1s Are Breaking Life Insurance (Ashwin Sharma) "Right now, insurers are getting fooled by mirages of good health that disappear when people quit treatment."

Entering Technical Debt's ZIRP Era (Scott Werner) "When refactoring is free, when AI can untangle any mess, when the cost of change approaches zero..."
Do not Interrupt Developers, Study Says (Antonija Bilic Arar) "interruptions are usually silent productivity killers"
Live coding sucks (Mustapha Hadid) "It’s all about stress."
Stop Hunting 10x Engineers: Build a 10x Organization Instead (Anastasija Uspenski) "The hero engineer is an illusion"

I Reviewed 500 Pull Requests — Here’s What Every Java Dev Gets Wrong (Kavya’s Programming Path)
What is First Principles Thinking? (Shane Parrish) "First principles thinking is the art of breaking down complex problems into their most fundamental truths."
Workflow Engine design proposal, tell me your thoughts (Oskar Dudycz) Durable execution has "cognitive overhead" no matter who develops it.
Tokens: The New Oil (Kent Beck) "Tomorrow's crisis is tomorrow's problem. Today, you survive."
Getting decent error reports in Bash when you’re using ’set -e’ (Chris Siebenmann) Nice!
Zombie Burnout: A New Way to Think About the Restless Exhaustion of Modern Life (Brad Stulberg) "the one who burns out doesn’t find the work meaningful, whereas the one who thrives does"