28-Jan-2026 Content of Interest

Software

A CEO, Captured. (Om) "Cook is not stupid. He is not evil. He is trapped."
ChatGPT Containers can now run bash, pip/npm install packages, and download files (Simon Willison) Interesting.
Thinking About Thought Leadership (Eleanor Berger Eleanor) "We need more thought leaders because we need more ways of thinking."
I’m addicted to being useful (Sean Goedecke) "...they don’t do it for the treats. They do it for the work itself, which is inherently satisfying."
The lost art of XML (Marcos Magueta) "The fact that we now consider this "old-fashioned" says more about our current priorities than about XML's utility."

The FDA Raised the Bar on MedTech Cybersecurity: Are Companies Ready? (Justin Kozak) "Section 524B specifically targets “cyber devices”—any device with software connecting to a network."

You’re in a computer literacy filter bubble (Curiositry) "If your mother uses Linux, you’re probably in a computer literacy filter bubble."

Designing real systems with immutable data in Clojure (Nubank Editorial) “building on bedrock instead of building on sand.”
The Retirement Crisis No One Warns You About: Mattering (Jennifer Breheny Wallace) Yeah, retirement is a going to be a tough transition!
The Death of Software Development (Michael Arnaldi) "We are living through the Industrial Revolution of Software."
Why We’ve Tried to Replace Developers Every Decade Since 1969 (Stephan Schwab) History never fails to repeat itself.
Modern life is good actually (Chris Arnade) "We might never be able to achieve perfection, but we might as well keep aiming for it"
Bring back opinionated architecture (Frederick Vanbrabant) "So, let’s stop taking the escape hatch of “it depends.” Pick a lane, document it well, and build it simply."

Your AI tool is subject to medical device regulation | Nature Health (Bilal A. Mateen, Johan Ordish, Michael J. A. Reid) "Here we highlight the existing regulations around the use of AI as a tool to inform public health and clinical decision making"

No More Mr. Nice Guy (Mike Fisher) "The best leaders don’t choose between empathy and responsibility. They accept that real leadership requires both"
Grounding LLMs with Recursive Code Execution (Dmitri Sotnikov) The number of AI tools available today is mind-numbing!
A Typical PDF (Neal Krawetz) Interesting details.
Why AI is pushing developers toward typed languages (Cassidy Williams) "TypeScript is now the most used language on GitHub, overtaking both Python and JavaScript as of August 2025."
Lies, Damn Lies, and Semantic Versioning (Brian Yencho) "Semantic versioning is an excellent scheme ..., but I also believe it to be a common tool that is widely misused and misunderstood"

The Stick in the Stream (rands) "your habits will only change if you seek the single stick" Not sure the stick analogy really works here.

Top 10: Medical Devices Companies | Healthcare Digital (Lucy Potter) Didn't know they were so big!
AI’s Approach to Medical Device Software Design (Steve Waugh) "medical device software design demands rigorous attention to safety, reliability, usability, and compliance."

The Rime of the Ancient Maintainer (JA Westenberg) "What we lack is language for the equally difficult work of keeping existing things from falling apart."
The Napoleon Technique: Postponing Things to Increase Productivity (Itamar Shatz) Good advice.
Code is a liability (not an asset) (Cory Doctorow) comment
Culture Debt (Mike Fisher) "Technical debt slows teams; culture debt divides them."
Change is the root of all (evil) bugs (Fernando Hurtado) "Because if you don’t understand where change comes from, it will surprise and bite you."
What Used to Take Months Now Takes Days (Obie Fernandez) Wow, just Wow!
2026 Tech Predictions (Ted Neward) Yearly tradition.

More Efficiency, More Demand (Mike Fisher) "When technology makes a task cheaper or easier, we don’t do less of it. We do more."
What are some interesting projects that you’ve done this year? (lobste.rs) Long list with a wide variety of projects.
The Compiler Is Your Best Friend, Stop Lying to It (Daniel Beskin) "A "lie" would be to write code that communicates one thing at compile-time while doing something else at runtime."

Technology is culture (Daniel Lemire) "Technological progress does not follow a path from the blackboard of a middle-aged MIT professor to your desk, via a corporation."
Thanks AI! (Rich Hickey) "When did we stop considering things failures that create more problems than they solve?"
Building internal agents (Will Larson) TL;DR, but many interesting details.

An unsolved question in sleep science (Curiositry) "Both short and long duration of sleep are significant predictors of death in prospective population studies."