19-Feb-2025 Content of Interest

Software

Attention To Details (Mike Fisher) “Details matter. It's worth waiting to get it right." – Steve Jobs
Unit Testing & The Goal (Gil Zilberfeld) Working code. Over time. In a constant speed.
Microservices ate my application - an adoption anti-pattern (Chris Richardson) The dog ate my homework.
On Extensibility (Arne Brasseur) "Clojure provides excellent extensibility."
The Controversial Truth about Tech Debt (Raphael Moutard) "Respect what came before you"
Personal Software: The Unbundling of the Programmer? (Addy Osmani) "the boundary between users and creators becomes increasingly fluid"
On Bloat (Rob Pike) Moore's law has plateaued, yet software continues to grow.

IT workers’ unemployment rate climbs in 2025 (Andrea Fox) "The health sector has seen its share of technology-driven corporate layoffs."

A Year of Telepathy (Neuralink) Stories of three people that have received implants.

Context-switching is the main productivity killer for developers (Dr Milan Milanović) "we consistently underestimate the disruptive nature of interruption.'
Defining Your Paranoia Level: Navigating Change Without the Overkill (Oskar Dudycz) "A much bigger challenge is unlearning the practices we've been using so far."
After 30 years of code, Java remains an enterprise cornerstone (Matt Ashare) Still lots of old versions in use.
A Decade of TILs (Josh Branchaud) An interesting approach to a personal knowledge database.
The End of Programming as We Know It (Tim O’Reilly) "This is not the end of programming. It is the beginning of its latest reinvention."
Software development topics I’ve changed my mind on after 10 years in the industry (Chris Kiehl) #1: "Simple is not given. It takes constant work"
Blockers to Innovation (Mike Fisher) Good read. "...it’s acceptable, even encouraged, to fail quickly, learn from the experience, and iterate toward success."

New IEEE Standard for Securing Biomedical Devices and Data (Kathy Pretz) It covers electronic health records, devices, and hospital systems
Med Tech Morphs Into Consumer Wearables - Semiconductor Engineering (Liz Allan) Interesting application examples.

Is engineering strategy useful? (Will Larson) "There's always a strategy, even if it isn't written down."

Best Simple System for Now (Daniel Terhorst-North) "the simplest system that meets the needs of the product right now"
API Abstraction, Derivatives, Extraction, and Distillation (Kin Lane) "Developers operating at each layer of API abstraction can’t see or care about the bigger picture."
Perfect is the enemy of good (Anton Medvedev) "I reverted to using plain old PHP"
Blazing-fast IoT data pipeline for infrared monitoring (Mehul Arora) Interesting. S2 is a serverless API for streaming data backed by object storage.
Introducing Kube Resource Orchestrator, or kro (Abdelfettah Sghiouar, Nic Slattery) "Crow" looks interesting.
Reflections on an Involuntary Sabbatical (Ted Neward) Always a fun read.

Software as a Medical Device: The New Holy Grail of Medtech (Maria Shepherd) "SaMD essentially leverages technology to enhance medical practice and decision-making through data-driven insights."

Cross-Discipline Approaches (Mike Fisher) "Why crossing department and discipline boundaries is important"
Joy & Curiosity #24 (Thorsten Ball) Good stuff. The Seinfeld references are particularly interesting.
The fizzbuzz that did not get me the job "somewhat challenging" -- Jeez, FizzBuzz on steroids!
Distributed Systems and Organization Design (Ted Neward) Conway's law and the Eight Fallaies of Distributed Computing/Teams.

Protecting Medical Devices: AI Model Evasion and Cybersecurity Threats "Safeguarding medical devices against cyber threats is no small feat."