Happy New Years! 🎉

Med Dev

• The Great Healthcare Reset: How Technology is Redefining Healthcare as We Know It (Dhaval Shah)

Software

• Rules for Writing Software Tutorials (Michael Lynch) Comprehensive list.
• Unintended Consequences (Mike Fisher) "The perils of poorly designed metrics and incentives"
• Systems Ideas that Sound Good But Almost Never Work—“Let’s just…” (Steven Sinofsky) A lot of premature optimization.
• Advent of Code 2024 (Mike Zamansky)
• 150 papers for Software Engineers (Facundo Olano) Good reference.
• Distributed Locking: A Practical Guide (Oskar Dudycz)
• 2024 Tech Roundup: The News You Might Have Missed (Tomas Fernandez) Lots of end-of-year lists around, but this one is pretty good.
• On Long Term Software Development (Bert Hubert) Some critical applications "appreciate your software sticking around for decades, with well described and pre-announced changes"
• Reflecting on static types (Jacob Emcken) "static types provide a sense of security...can lead to complacency, causing developers to overlook more effective solutions."
• Why The Ends Don’t Justify The Means - Friday Forward (#463) (Robert Glazer) "Leaders must constantly examine the balance between ends and means"
• Optimize your shell experience (Matheus Richard) Handy tips. I also use: Atuin - Magical Shell History

Software

• Why do developers love clean code but hate writing documentation? "It's time to delegate to the robots."
• “Founder Mode” and the Art of Mythmaking (mipsytipsy)
• The AI Trap (Mike Fisher)
• Lisp as an OO language (Eric Normand) Semantics!
• Is Your Company’s Problem Complicated? Or Complex? (HBR) Complex: "interactions are continually changing."
• API Design of X (Twitter) Home Timeline (Oleksii Trekhleb)
• Java Applet API heads for the exit (Paul Krill)
• The missing SQL sub-queries (JUXT Ltd)

Med Dev

• Navigating the Complex Regulatory Landscape for AI/ML-Enabled Medical Devices (Gardner Law)

Web

• The premise trap (David Heinemeier Hansson) "a one-step-forwards-two-steps-backwards dance"

Software

• The Death of the Stubborn Developer (Steve Yegge) "Chat-oriented programming"
• What hath AWS wrought? (Forrest Brazeal) 2024 AWS re:Invent observations.
• Break Stuff on Purpose (Sean Madden) Strengthen your system’s ability to recover by intentionally causing and resolving failures
• Evolving Your Architecture: Essential Steps and Tools for Modernization (Camilla Crispim) Good overview.
• Brittle Points: How to make companies robust (Jason Cohen) Companies fail for all sorts of reasons.
• Writing down (and searching through) every UUID (Nolen Royalty) Impressive!
• The downside of hiring for cultural fit (Bart Wullems) "valuing diversity and encouraging employees to bring their whole selves to work"
• Google Testing Blog: Tech on the Toilet: Driving Software Excellence, One Bathroom Break at a Time (Kanu Tewary, Andrew Trenk) Really!?!

Web

• Werner Vogels: “Complexity is inevitable” (Tom Krazit)

Science

• Muscle Implants Could Allow Mind-Controlled Prosthetics—No Brain Surgery Required (Emily Mullin)

Science

• The Whole Story of How Humans Evolved From Great Apes (John Gowlett) Interesting stuff.

Software

• If Not React, Then What? (Alex Russell) "In short, nobody should start a new project in the 2020s based on React."
• Designing data products: Working backwards from use cases (Martin Fowler)
• The Great Filter Comes For Us All (Jeff Atwood) Jeff's personal theory of why we haven't encountered alien life by now. Interesting topic.
• About 10% of developers ‘do virtually nothing’ (Antonija Bilic Arar) This is an organizational failure.

Med Dev

• FDA issues guidance on PCCP for AI-enabled device software functions (Anthony Vecchione)

Web

• Tech predictions for 2025 and beyond (Dr. Werner Vogels)

Software

• Which IDEs do software engineers love, and why? (Gergely Orosz) Not mentioned, but Emacs and Copilot work great together.
• Return of The Frugal Architect(s) (Dr. Werner Vogels) "seven simple laws for building cost-aware, sustainable, and modern architectures"
• Deduplication in Distributed Systems: Myths, Realities, and Practical Solutions (Oskar Dudycz) Distributed systems are hard!
• Lifecycle of an IT product using the example of Telepathy – a brain-computer interface (BCI) from Nueralink (habrbah) "It seems important to discuss neuroethics issues now"
• Never rewrite code? (Derek Comartin) "Never underestimate the value of working software"
• Threads Beat Async/Await (Armin Ronacher) A TL;DR deep dive.
• What makes concurrency so hard? (Hillel Wayne)
• 5 Non-LLM Software Trends To Be Excited About (Engineer’s Codex) AI is so dominating. Refreshing change of pace.

Bci

• Neuralink Plans to Test Whether Its Brain Implant Can Control a Robotic Arm (Emily Mullin)