11-Dec-2025 Content of Interest

Med Dev

Avoidable Software Failures Cost Trillions - IEEE Spectrum (Harry Goldstein) "The FDA recalls on average 20 medical devices per month due to software issues."

Deprecate Like You Mean It (Entropic Thoughts) "What if we intentionally made deprecated functions return the wrong result … sometimes?"
The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI (Cory Doctorow) "How to be a critic whose criticism inflicts maximum damage on the parts of AI that are doing the most harm."
Tech Debt vs Quality (Mike Fisher) "The goal isn’t to find balance; it’s to build acceleration that lasts."
Everything New Has Bugs (Mike Fisher) "The deeper issue isn’t speed itself, it’s the lag time between faster motion and the adaptation of supporting systems."
How good engineers write bad code at big companies (Sean Goedecke) "I expect to be re-orged at least every year, and often much more frequently."

After the Bubble (Tim Bray) Good read. "The GenAI bubble is going to pop. Everyone knows that."

Event Design for Streaming Systems: A Primer (Ian Duncan) "The key challenge is managing these public event streams as contracts between teams."
Demystifying Determinism in Durable Execution (Jack Vanlightly)
How Do We Effectively Communicate Architecture? (Stuart Breingan) "Architecture is complex, and most of the time the fastest and clearest way to convey it is visually."
Fifty Shades of OOP (Lesley Lai) "survey some ideas related to OOP and mention their pros and cons"
Building a Durable Execution Engine With SQLite (Gunnar Morling)
Solving Fizz Buzz with Cosines (Susam Pal) "the modest goal of making this simple problem more complicated" Mission accomplished!
Spring Framework 7 and Spring Boot 4: The tastiest bites - JVM Weekly vol. 153 (Artur Skowronski) "new generation of practically all its flagship projects: Spring Framework 7, Spring Boot 4, Spring Data 2025.1, and a release for Spring AI 1.1 for the Boot 3.5 line"

📄 TDD is more important than ever (Justin Searls) "Without tests, you can't refactor aggressively, deploy frequently, or delete safely."
Software Development in the Time of Strange New Angels (Dave Griffith) "The good news is that developing the skills and processes necessary to take advantage of the amazing new possibilities provided by agentic software development is quite feasible."

Spikiness (Mike Fisher) "Evolution is survival."
GitHub in 2025 (Stephen O’Grady) "Each new tool that has its moment in the sun"
the terminal of the future (Jynn Nelson) Interesting. Lots of considerations.
Four years on writing a tech book: pitching to a publisher (Gergely Orosz) Yikes! Why would anyone want to write a book!
Build better software to build software better (David Reed) "We fixed this problem by combining modern, high-performance build tooling (Bazel) with classic software engineering principles."
The Case That A.I. Is Thinking (James Somers) "ChatGPT does not have an inner life. Yet it seems to know what it’s talking about."