Happy New Years! 🎉

Med Dev

• The Great Healthcare Reset: How Technology is Redefining Healthcare as We Know It (Dhaval Shah)

Software

• Rules for Writing Software Tutorials (Michael Lynch) Comprehensive list.
• Unintended Consequences (Mike Fisher) "The perils of poorly designed metrics and incentives"
• Systems Ideas that Sound Good But Almost Never Work—“Let’s just…” (Steven Sinofsky) A lot of premature optimization.
• Advent of Code 2024 (Mike Zamansky)
• 150 papers for Software Engineers (Facundo Olano) Good reference.
• Distributed Locking: A Practical Guide (Oskar Dudycz)
• 2024 Tech Roundup: The News You Might Have Missed (Tomas Fernandez) Lots of end-of-year lists around, but this one is pretty good.
• On Long Term Software Development (Bert Hubert) Some critical applications "appreciate your software sticking around for decades, with well described and pre-announced changes"
• Reflecting on static types (Jacob Emcken) "static types provide a sense of security...can lead to complacency, causing developers to overlook more effective solutions."
• Why The Ends Don’t Justify The Means - Friday Forward (#463) (Robert Glazer) "Leaders must constantly examine the balance between ends and means"
• Optimize your shell experience (Matheus Richard) Handy tips. I also use: Atuin - Magical Shell History