21-Apr-2026 Content of Interest

Software

34th volume of our Technology Radar (ThoughtWorks) "An opinionated guide to today's technology landscape"
The importance of people who care (Rachel Andrew) "Design systems and editorial style guides need people who care. "
Thank You For Being a Friend (Jeff Atwood)
How Software Engineering Principles Help You Get More Out of Your AI Tools (Telerik Blogs) Useful advice.
Byte - a visual archive This is awesome! "This zoomable map shows every page of every issue of BYTE starting from the front cover of the first issue (top left) to the last page of the final edition (bottom right)."
How to hire people who are better than you (Jason Cohen) "that’s the only way the organization grows stronger and smarter and better rather than just growing larger"
Agents, Code Reviews, and the Bottleneck Shift, Oh My! (Oren Eini) "Being able to evaluate multiple different approaches to a solution is crazy valuable."
Eat Your Words (On my Om) " the technology industry would benefit enormously from a more grounded vocabulary around AI"

Good sleep, good learning, good life (Dr Piotr Wozniak) Even the table of contents is TL;DR. Good stuff!
Sleep Deprived (Robert Glazer) "sleep deprivation destroys our ability to recognize that we need more sleep, creating a downward spiral."

Build the Right Thing (Mike Fisher) "great businesses are discovered before they are optimized"
Grief and the Nonprofessional Programmer (Mike Loukides) "I made the computer do what I wanted, but I lost the understanding of how it did it."
Productive procrastination (Max van IJsselmuiden) "our brains prefer novelty, and they protect us from the negative emotions tied to tasks we feel we have to do."
8 Tips for Writing Agent Skills (Philipp Schmid) Good tips.
Configuration flags are where software goes to rot (Frank Denis) "But temporary flags are rarely temporary. Once a flag exists, it starts attracting dependencies."
✉️ Content Hiatus (Justin Searls) I'm no longer optimizing for "reach," but rather "happiness.": How to be perfectly unhappy

Eight years of wanting, three months of building with AI. (Lalit Maganti) "There’s an uncomfortable parallel between using AI coding tools and playing slot machines"
The Building Block Economy (Mitchell Hashimoto) "We have to accept that building blocks and software factories rule everything around us and accept and internalize the consequences of that."
S3 Files and the changing face of S3 (Dr. Werner Vogels) "S3 feature that integrates the Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) into S3 and allows any existing S3 data to be accessed directly as a network attached file system."
Bits In, Bits Out (Erik Hoel) "Six years of AI and the world got stupider"
“Good Taste” Is Just Experience (Terrible Software) '“You need reps” tells them keep showing up, and you’ll get there.'
Backstage is dead (Zohar Einy) "Not because it was bad. But because the world moved on."

The Pulse: is GitHub still best for AI-native development? (Gergely Orosz) "GitHub seems unable to keep up with the massive increase in infra load from agents."
Systems Thinking (Rockford Lhotka) "The industry is shifting from writing code to designing systems."
I used AI. It worked. I hated it (Michael Taggart) "I hated writing software this way."
Some uncomfortable truths about AI coding agents (Joel Andrews) Strong opinion: "LLM-based AI coding agents have no place now, or ever, in generating production code"
Ariane 5’s “Reused Code” Catastrophe (Mike Fisher) "reuse is not free"
New Era for Clojure: Infix Syntax! (Jiri Knesl) Heresy for sure!

Artemis II’s toilet is a moon mission milestone (K. R. Callaway) “the toilet is a ‘mission-critical’ system, so if it breaks down, the whole mission is in jeopardy,”

Software, in a Time of Fear (Ed Lyons) "how to survive inside the AI revolution in software development, without succumbing to the fear that swirls around all of us"
Move GitHub Private Repos to Google Drive in Minutes (Tony Metzidis) No GitHub Actions, but still an interesting alternative for cloud storage.
Working on products people hate (Sean Goedecke) "Working on products people hate forces you to accept how little control individual engineers have over whether people like what they build."
Engineers do get promoted for writing simple code (Sean Goedecke) "Simple software engineering does get rewarded, and on balance will take you further in your career."
Which Design Doc Did a Human Write? (Michael Lynch) Interesting read.
Twitching Before You Sprint (Mike Fisher) I'm not a big fan of analogies, but interesting read nevertheless.
In Defense of Deep Reading (Brad Stulberg) "greater short-form video consumption was associated with significantly lower performance on cognitive tasks, poorer attention, and weaker self-control" Uh oh!