Software

• Bit-banging a BASIC Birthday Not sure why, but resurrecting old hardware/software is fun.
• Agile is not a process. (George Stocker) "Agile is a set of values and principles; it’s not a well-defined (or even an ill-defined) process"
• TBM 307: The “P” Word, Legitimacy, and Challenging Our Default Models and Frames (John Cutler) "P" word is political. Interesting read.
• Just use Postgres (Ethan McCue) (Ethan McCue) Nice list of alternatives and their pros/cons.

Emacs

• İsmail Efe: Why Use Emacs? (İsmail Efe Top) Nice summary of "Emacs propaganda"

Med Dev

• FDA Medical Device Security SBOMs: While Great, Don’t Rely On Them Alone - Forbes
• Artificial Intelligence’s Place in Healthcare: Transforming Patient Care (TechnologyHQ)

Web

• Software estimates have never worked and never will (David Heinemeier Hansson) "leave the scope open to negotiation during development"

Software

• Developers waste 8+ hours weekly on inefficiencies like technical debt (Milena Radivojević) Atlassian survey results overview.
• The Human Condition (Mike Fisher) Interesting read: "The human condition is a fascinating paradox."
• Think Better (Mike Loukides) "Creativity comes from the bottom up"
• Against Names (Steve Klabnik) TIL about jj
• When Your Boss Suddenly Reduces Your Scope (Dina Denham Smith, HBR) "avoid catastrophizing"
• The Pep Effect (Mike Fisher) "shift towards valuing systemic thinking and team cohesion over individual prowess."
• Primitive Obsession (Andrew Cairns) "Primitive Obsession is a code smell." So are mutable objects (says the FP guy).

Med Dev

• Nudge | Non-invasive neuromodulation Ultrasound neuromodulation "has begun to produce promising results." Also see Nudge - Quintin Frerichs.

Web

• LinkedIn Is Not Having an Identity Crisis. Jobs Are. "logging into LinkedIn more out of habit than necessity"

Software

• Y’all are sleeping on HTTP/3 "HTTP/3 abandons TCP in favor of a channel-aware UDP-based protocol called QUIC." Yeah, it does seem important.
• How I Use “AI” (Nicholas Carlini) It's a new world!
• Legacy code with really good tests is still legacy code (Oren Eini) Yep!
• “We ran out of columns” - The best, worst codebase "The database lives forever" 😀
• The Product Model and Org Design (Marty Cagan) "does a transformation to the product model necessitate a reorg?" Spoiler: no.
• Browsers, cookies and surfing the web: The quirky history of internet lingo (Erica Brozovsky)
• Questionable Advice: “My boss says we don’t need any engineering managers. Is he right?” (charity.wtf) Good read.

Startups

• Raw intuitions about startups (Gordon Brander) #1: "Start with product and work backwards to technology"

Med Dev

• What is a DHF? (Robert Packard)

Med Dev

• Neuralink rival Synchron offers thought control with Apple Vision Pro (Ashley Capoot)
• FDA officials outline benefits of AI lifecycle management (Nick Paul Taylor)
• Sleepwave EEG from an earbud. Cool stuff!

Software

• TBM 304: Losing a Day a Week to Inefficiencies? (John Cutler) "Developers complain about DevEx a lot."
• The end of the Everything Cloud (Forrest Brazeal) "undead zombies behind impressive-looking marketing pages" ❤️
• Thinking Like an Architect (Gregor Hohpe) "Architects Make Everyone Else Smarter"
• Why You Feel Underappreciated at Work (Tessa West) "There is a difference between high-visibility roles and status-granting roles"

Software

• 2024 Stack Overflow Developer Survey Same old, same old, plus lots of AI questions.
• Software Architecture in an AI World (Mike Loukides) Informative.
• Top-Down Imperative Clojure Architectures (Thomas Cothran) FP vs. OOP. Also, TIL about with-redefs.

Med Dev

• The 2024 MPO Top 30 Medical Device Companies Report
• Designing Medical Devices For The Human Touch Human factors engineering (HFE)
• 6 steps to release a medical IoT device - Edge Industry Review (Gilad David Maayan)
• How SBOM Data Enhances Cybersecurity and Response Operations - Security Boulevard (Deb Radcliff)
• The Rise of Nylon Oral Appliances - Sleep Review (Alyx Arnett)

Health It

• A new study using Fitbit data uncovers connections between sleep and disease "There are even quite a few individuals who tend to sneak in an afternoon nap" 👍