Software

• Don’t Refactor Like Uncle Bob. Please (TheAxolot) "if you’re gonna read this book, ignore the refactorings and come up with your own."
• Why we should care about process (Dave Ogle) "what are self-organizing teams all about?"
• IAM Is The Worst (Mathew Duggan) "IAM started out as an easy idea that as more and more services were launched, started to become nightmarish to organize."
• The Four Kinds of Research-and-Development Teams (Ted Neward) See the follow-up posts on each team type.

Med Dev

• The Smart Sleep Alarm Is The Holy Grail Of Health Tracking (Pranavsingh Dhunnoo)
• New Electronics - Coauthor provides compliant Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) (Neil Tyler) "It goes beyond just policy generation by configuring development tools to enforce these policies and plans."

Software

• How to Talk About What You Do (without Being Boring) (Craig Wortmann) "Being crisp is a gift"
• TBM 291: Why Your Product Transformation Will Fail (John Cutler) "for chrissakes stop calling it a Transformation"
• Conflict (Mike Fisher) There are many types of conflict!
• Do you feel lucky? (Eric Brechner) "It would be wonderful if the world were fair and just. Unfortunately, it isn’t."
• 5 Signs Your One-on-Ones Aren’t Working (Jen Dary, HBR)
• The Architect’s Guide to the GenAI Tech Stack — 10 Tools (Keith Pijanowski)
• Compromised visions are superior (Eric Normand) "Product complexity kills projects more than code complexity."

Med Dev

• Reviewing Findings on FDA Cleared AI/ML-Based Medical Devices (Health Law Advisor)
• Zeto wins FDA clearance for ONE EEG system - Medical Device Network (Jenna Philpott)

Med Dev

• Yes, Agile Can Work in Medtech - MedCity News “freedom to release”: the ability to push out new features with minimal friction.

Software

• Lisp: Icing or Cake? So many Lisp variants!
• Be findable (Thorsten Ball)
• Meet 24 startups advancing healthcare with AI (Yuval Passov) Lot's of healthcare AI going on!
• Lazy Work, Good Work (Morgan Housel) "most people have thought jobs without being given much time to think"
• I made a new cartoon thing for you to try (Forrest Brazeal)

Health It

• How to navigate the risks of remote patient monitoring "data security and privacy concerns rank as my No. 1 threat"

Web

• System tests have failed (David Heinemeier Hansson) Reducing brittle system tests makes sense. Not so sure that manual testing is the best path though.

Software

• Understanding Supply-Chain Attacks and OWASP Dependency Check (Bart Wullems)

• Don’t Microservice, Do Module (Ali Khaleqi Yekta) "Microservices are a trend, but they don't deserve to be."

• Clean Architecture Sucks (Steve Smith) It all sucks if you don't know what you're doing.

• Notes on how to use LLMs in your product. (Will Larson)

• How to write “hookable” software? Desirable functionality with no easy solution.

• Maker vs. Manager: How Your Schedule Can Make or Break You (Farnam Street)

• An Engineering Manager Challenge (Ted Neward)

• Multi-Tenancy: What is it and why do you care? (jeremydmiller) Good refresher.

Software

• Google I/O 2024: Sundar Pichai on Gemini, AI progress and more Overview of Sundar’s keynote.
• The dilemma of quality versus speed is false (Denis Kranjcec) "Quality is the prerequisite for speed"
• Three Laws of Software Complexity (or: why software engineers are always grumpy) (Mahesh Balakrishnan)

Med Dev

• Are You Going To Wake Up From Cryosleep? (berci.mesko) Interesting stuff. Reality has the habit of catching up to sci-fi. Maybe this too someday?
• Big Tech in Medtech: Is Apple Pressing Too Hard? (Amanda Pedersen) "Traditional medical device companies will have to become even more savvy than they are today about making friends with the likes of Apple."