Software

• GitHub Actions Feels Bad (alper) 26 minute video
• Weird Ruby: Mixing Code and Data (Bozhidar Batsov) Cool!
• The Hum of the Machine (Thorsten Ball)
• Tech and the Twilight of Democracy (Mathew Duggan) No happy holidays here!
• The unfortunate math behind consulting companies

Med Dev

• #9 - Medical device cybersecurity - Today’s Medical Developments
• Resmed posts notice about risk of mask magnets interfering with medical implants (Nick Paul Taylor)
• Roundup: Cyber incidents, vulnerabilities hit the medtech sector in 2023 (Ricky Zipp)

Web

• Commit to competence in this coming year (David Heinemeier Hansson) TIL "...about the beauty of the four Cs: Clarity, cohesion, consistency, and conciseness."

Science

• The Race to Put Brain Implants in People Is Heating Up (Emily Mullin)

Med Dev

• 5 Things We Learnt About Investments In Digital Health: Our E-book (Pranavsingh Dhunnoo)

Software

• 7 Misconceptions About Microfrontend (Temitope Oyedele) "Microfrontends offer enhanced flexibility, improved scalability, and streamlined development processes."
• Advice for new software devs who’ve read all those other advice essays (crstry) Good read for any software developer.
• Is “Wiring the Winning Organization” a book for you? Read my five takeaways and decide for yourself. (Richard Seroter) The older Gene Kim books aren't bad.
• How Meta built the infrastructure for Threads (Laine Campbell, Chunqiang (CQ) Tang) Always interesting to read about these global-scale solutions.
• Technical Debt is not real (JoelMcCracken) "It’s a metaphor, a way of thinking about the accumulated consequences of past decisions and shortcuts." That doesn't mean it's not real!
• Implications of the failure of the Adobe-Figma deal. (Om Malik) "The innovation ecosystem depends on sustained outcomes — a positive outcome of even one in a hundred startups keeps the innovation engine chugging along."
• Architecture Decision Records (ADR): Enhancing Software Development

Software

• The AI trust crisis "Trust is really important."
• Bliki: TestDrivenDevelopment (Martin Fowler)

Web

• Why hasn’t LinkedIn moved to Azure? (Tom Krazit)
• Simple sabotage for software Tips "to destroy productivity for as long as you can without getting caught."

Blogs

• DateTime (xkcd) Well said!

Med Dev

• Updated FDA Cybersecurity Guidance: What’s Changed for Medical Devices? "First and foremost, it’s about protecting the patients. It’s about retaining their trust and making sure they receive the best care."
• WHO’s 6 Principles For An AI Regulatory Framework For Medical Product Development
• Resmed hails ‘significant victory’ as patent board rules in dispute with NYU (Nick Paul Taylor)
• In wake of Philips recall, senators urge review of FDA medical device oversight (Susan Kelly)

Med Dev

• Revealing the landscape of software as a medical device industry "SaMD is a billion-dollar market."
• The Most Overhyped Technologies in Healthcare (berci.mesko)
• Resmed’s new C-suite focused on growing sleep apnea device demand: analysts (Nick Paul Taylor)

Software

• TDD Isn’t Design (Kent Beck)
• 9 reasons SQL has got to go SQL is the cockroach of data. It will survive anything!
• Hanukkah of Data 2023/5784 (hwayne) Jewish Advent of Code
• Simplicity is better than complexity (carlana) "Complexity just happens and its costs are literally exponential."
• Don’t make Apache Kafka be your database "Kafka is complementary to your database, but should not be your database."

Med Dev

• Empatica aims to develop seizure-forecasting algorithm based on wearable data (Nick Paul Taylor) Also see the company site: Empatica
• Vivos receives FDA 510(k) clearance for oral devices to treat severe sleep apnea (Nick Paul Taylor) Non-surgical OSA treatment: Oral appliances coupled with specific therapeutic treatments.

Web

• Tech predictions for 2024 and beyond (Dr. Werner Vogels)

Software

• How Often Should We Sharpen Our Tools? (ltratt) Now you should try Emacs!
• You (probably) don’t need DateTime (scorpil) TL;DR Only to remind me that working with date/time is hard.
• Advent of Code 2023 (garritfra) I'm still working on 2022 puzzles!
• I Fight For The Users (Jeff Atwood) "I urge you, all of you, to disavow Twitter and never look at it again."