Science

• The Whole Story of How Humans Evolved From Great Apes (John Gowlett) Interesting stuff.

Software

• If Not React, Then What? (Alex Russell) "In short, nobody should start a new project in the 2020s based on React."
• Designing data products: Working backwards from use cases (Martin Fowler)
• The Great Filter Comes For Us All (Jeff Atwood) Jeff's personal theory of why we haven't encountered alien life by now. Interesting topic.
• About 10% of developers ‘do virtually nothing’ (Antonija Bilic Arar) This is an organizational failure.

Med Dev

• FDA issues guidance on PCCP for AI-enabled device software functions (Anthony Vecchione)

Web

• Tech predictions for 2025 and beyond (Dr. Werner Vogels)

Software

• Which IDEs do software engineers love, and why? (Gergely Orosz) Not mentioned, but Emacs and Copilot work great together.
• Return of The Frugal Architect(s) (Dr. Werner Vogels) "seven simple laws for building cost-aware, sustainable, and modern architectures"
• Deduplication in Distributed Systems: Myths, Realities, and Practical Solutions (Oskar Dudycz) Distributed systems are hard!
• Lifecycle of an IT product using the example of Telepathy – a brain-computer interface (BCI) from Nueralink (habrbah) "It seems important to discuss neuroethics issues now"
• Never rewrite code? (Derek Comartin) "Never underestimate the value of working software"
• Threads Beat Async/Await (Armin Ronacher) A TL;DR deep dive.
• What makes concurrency so hard? (Hillel Wayne)
• 5 Non-LLM Software Trends To Be Excited About (Engineer’s Codex) AI is so dominating. Refreshing change of pace.

Bci

• Neuralink Plans to Test Whether Its Brain Implant Can Control a Robotic Arm (Emily Mullin)

Med Dev

• Medcrypt expands strategic partnerships to boost cybersecurity for medical devices
• Continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) for AI/ML devices (Erez Kaminski)

Software

• Firmware SBoMs for open source projects (Richard Hughsie) A little CycloneDX vs. SPDX detail.

• TBM 321: “Reducing Complexity” (John Cutler) Need to "create an environment where people can work effectively with complexity"

• Complex for Whom? (Bill Mill) "Complexity has to live somewhere.

• Platforms Need New Building Blocks (Ian Nowland)

Software

• Working on Legacy Codebases (or a contractor’s life) (Scott Galloway)
• How To Fail at Microservices (Ashley Davis) Good advice.
• Why software only moves forward (Swizec Teller)
• We’re leaving Kubernetes (Gitpod) Development environments are not well suited.
• How To Have A Happy Retirement: 4 Secrets From Research (Eric Barker) Important for us baby boomers!

Health It

• How IoT is transforming remote patient monitoring (Bill Siwicki) You can't have RPM without IoT.

Med Dev

• The Role of AI in Medical Device Innovation (Amanda Winstead)
• Top 5 Best CAPA Software Solutions for Effective Corrective Action Management (ByAbdul Basit) CAPAs suck!

Software

• the death of the architect (Zach Tellman)

• Australia/Lord_Howe is the weirdest timezone (Ulysse Carion) Dealing with timezones has always sucked. It's actually worse than I thought!

• Why Slight Failed: A Slight Post-Mortem (Colman Humphrey) I love these startup stories. "We tried, it didn’t work."

• Framework overload: when convenience dulls innovation in software development (Prahlad Yeri)

• Thoughtworks Technology Radar Oct 2024 (V31) Always informative.

• Why do arrays start at 0? (Hillel Wayne) Interesting history.

Science

• A Neuralink Rival Says Its Eye Implant Restored Vision in Blind People (Emily Mullin) Impressive results for retinal prostheses.