Software

• The Power of Questions (Mike Fisher) "mastering the art of critical inquiry"
• The Value of Values (Eric Normand) "A value needs teeth."
• 4 Software Design Principles I Learned the Hard Way The don't-DRY advice (i.e. DO repeat yourself) is just a cautionary tale of over-abstraction.
• Security, Maintainability, Velocity: Choose One (Tyler Treat) "The reality, however, is that these three priorities are competing with each other"
• Language of Business (Mike Fisher) "it's about bridging the gap between technical expertise and business acumen"
• 6 Common Leadership Styles — and How to Decide Which to Use When (Rebecca Knight, HBR)

Med Dev

• Ozempic And Other Weight Loss Drugs Will Only Work With Digital Health (Andrea Koncz)
• Resmed Stock Poised for Growth: Buy Rating Affirmed Amid Revenue Upswing and Margin … Interesting that this was published on the same day as the Lilly obesity drug announcement. Lilly obesity drug shows benefit in sleep disorder study, pointing to new use

Software

• There is always something: Fighting distractions as a software developer (Dalibor Schon) "This article is a distraction. You should get back to your work! Or not?"
• Why Leaders Need Self-Awareness (Mike Fisher) A little off topic, but an interesting read nevertheless.
• Design is not recoverable from implementation (Eric Normand) "Anticipating changes is not design. Design is the higher level understanding of how we decompose the system into interacting parts."
• Creativity in Software Engineering (Abi Noda) "Creativity is not about originality, it’s about reusability"

Med Dev

• Software as a Medical Device: key considerations for SaMD success | FutureScot (James Graveston)

Web

• A Nobel Prize Winner And Chocolate (David Friedman) "dark chocolate is the way to go" No duh!

Med Dev

• Using AI to Help Medical Devices Help Themselves (Kate Stephenson)
• United States: Preparing For FDA’s New Guidance For AI/ML Medical Devices - Mondaq

Software

• Ruby on Rails Is Not Dead and May Even Be AI Panacea for Devs (Richard MacManus) “GitHub’s primary codebase is a large Ruby on Rails monolith with over 4.2 million lines of code across roughly 30,000 files."
• Thoughtworks Technology Radar Volume 30: April 2024 Always good to review technology trends.
• Book Review: “Tidy First?” by Kent Beck (Jimmy Koppel) Beck has done some good work in the past, but this book, not so much.

Emacs

• Creating an Emacs package: ‘password-menu’ (Bob) Yay! 💥

Software

• It’s Not About The Great Idea (Mike Fisher) "great ideas don’t magically turn into great products."
• Google Testing Blog: What’s in a Name? Good advice: "thoughtful names can save the reader (and writer) a lot of time and frustration."
• The Missing Link Between Strategy and Innovation (David L. Rogers, HBR) Above my pay-grade, but still a good read.
• The WORST Domain Modeling Mistakes! (Derek Comartin) "a heavy focus on technology in terms of programming languages, frameworks, libraries and tools, rather than the business problem at hand."

Med Dev

• FDA Publishes White Paper on Artificial Intelligence & Medical Products - JD Supra

Software

• An architect is not an evangelist (Bart Wullems)
• Productivity in Silence: The Ideal of Eliminating Meetings (netleon) "Meeting optimization not only saves time but also often reveals and eliminates deep imperfections in internal processes."
• Semantic AJAX-HTML (Herman Martinus) Fiddling around with HTMLX
• A Few Words on Testing (Thorsten Ball) "... maybe there’s no correlation between software quality and tests."

Med Dev

• Designing Wearable Healthcare Devices We Can Trust - MedTech Intelligence Market "is expected to reach $250 billion by 2032"!

Science

• Watch Neuralink’s First Human Subject Demonstrate His Brain-Computer Interface (Emily Mullin)