24-Jun-2026 Content of Interest

Software

The Network You Can’t See (Mike Fisher) "The biggest risk for most leaders is not bad ideas. It is having built a feedback loop so tight that bad ideas come back validated."
The Universe just wants to learn (Shyam Sreevalsan) "Are DNA and the weights of a neural network a similar kind of object?"
The New Software Lifecycle (Addy Osmani) Informative graphics.
Lost confidence (Jason Cohen) "use techniques that work whenever the future is unpredictable. Because it always is."
The Architecture of Focus (Magnus Hedemark) "Do not fight your environment. Redesign it."
Cartels of Mediocrity (Taylor Wood) TL;DR, but a good takeaway: "take pride in doing high-quality work even if peers do not!"

Andros Fenollosa: How I built a GPU backend for Emacs (Andros Fenollosa) Interesting development effort and emacs-devel discussion.

Using Agents, Keeping Agency (Devin Dickerson) "You Own the Result, So Don't Delegate the Why"
The First Principle (Mike Fisher) "Every leader is a curator of stories whether they realize it or not."
AI demands more engineering discipline. Not less (Charity Majors) "What happened in 2025 was this: the economics of code production were turned upside down."
Your API Is Already a Hidden MCP Server, You Just Need to Discover It (Marin Pavelić) Interesting. Worth further investigation.
Your AI strategy has a trust problem, not a tooling problem (Elena Verna) "The blocker is company systems that are mostly designed to prevent things from happening."

Software-defined medical devices are evolving | Electronics Weekly "Complexity moves to the edge"
Rethinking FDA audit readiness: A faster path to sustainable compliance "inspections expose weaknesses in how work is documented, connected, and governed on an ongoing basis."

Top 10 Brain Monitoring Companies Advancing Non-Invasive Neurological Care "The new devices will enable a significant transition from a laboratory to the home, workplace, and athletic arenas"

Only Variety Beats Variety (Mike Fisher) "The hammer is optional. The reckoning is not."
In the Seams (Devin Dickerson) "The Org Chart Made The System"
Test Coverage Won’t Save You (Jenn Cooper) "On protecting agent-written codebases from incoherence."
Doing nothing at work (Sean Goedecke) "engineering success ... is determined by the ability to do the right things at the right time"
Do the hardest thing (Justin Jackson) "Find a good idea that's actually worth doing. Get obsessed and stay obsessed."
The Many Deaths and Rebirths of .NET (Bipin Joshi) "is this one thing or many things? Did I miss something? Is it all just .NET?" Good history.
Before GitHub (Armin Ronacher) "GitHub Is Slowly Dying"

Why Hardened Images are Suddenly Everywhere (Kate Holterhoff) "A base image is a shared dependency, which means it’s also a shared liability."
From Scriptorium to System (Mike Fisher) "This is the hand-copying phase of AI."
AI enthusiasts are in a race against time, AI skeptics are in a race against entropy (xpost) (mipsytipsy) "they talk about each other — as roadblocks, as caricatures, as threats"
Fast is better than slow (Patrick Dubroy) Biggies: "Don’t delay.", "Do only what’s required."
Respect what came before (Bart Wullems) "Every system is a set of scars"
The Copy and the Guru (On my Om) "I decided it was time to create a digital version of “me.”"
Managing Architectural Risk During Agile Development (Manuel Rosso-Llopart) "Agile Architecture Risk Management (AARM) and Continuous Risk Management (CRM) processes to create a practice for evaluating software architecture risks during development"

Notes on Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical on AI (Simon Willison) Interesting.
The Eternal Sloptember (George Hotz) "the adoption of AI agents into software development will be one of the most costly mistakes in the field’s history"
AI Eats the World presentation has been updated for May 2026 (Benedict Evans) "big presentation exploring macro and strategic trends in the tech industry"
Code was the smallest part of the job (Dr Milan Milanovi) "Code is a liability, not an asset. Every new line is a bill we need to pay."
Bliki: Vibe Coding (Martin Fowler) "With little attention to the code, vibed software can rapidly produce many lines of code of a very low quality."
TBM 423: Why Defining Teams Is So Hard (John Cutler) TL;DR, but love the drawing.