24-Mar-2025 Content of Interest

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The Snacks & Cereals of 2024 (Cabel Sasser) Incredible list! Never even heard of many of these brands.
The Road Not Taken is Guaranteed Minimum Income (Jeff Atwood)

You are naming your tests wrong (Vladimir Khorikov) Reasonable advice.
Revenge of the junior developer (Steve Yegge) "It's not AI's job to prove it's better than you. It's your job to get better using AI."
What Comes After GitHub Actions? (Julian K. Arni) "Nix is the right way of doing CI."
Discontinuous improvement (Bart Wullems) "The solution isn't to abandon improvement - it's to schedule it properly."

The Art of the Perfect Nap (Talar Moukhtarian) "Done wisely, naps can be a valuable way to boost your focus and energy."

On Inspectability (Arne Brasseur) "The importance of inspectability is often felt most strongly by those unfamiliar with a system."
Why I’m No Longer Talking to Architects About Microservices (Ian Miell) "In short, tech should follow business needs, not the other way around."
Stories (Mike Fisher) An important "soft" skill.
Outcomes Are Hard (Marty Cagan, Felipe Castro) "Moving from outputs to outcomes means shifting attention from what we build (the outputs) to the difference we want to make (the outcomes)."
Slack: The Art of Being Busy Without Getting Anything Done (Mathew Duggan)
Whole Architecture Weekly content is free now! (Oskar Dudycz) Free is good. Thanks!

The Product Engineer (rands) "Bad product managers are an active hindrance to developing software."

De-risking medical device startups with a systematic approach to innovation (Frederick Kruger) Good overview.
The Promise and Challenges of Brain–Computer Interfaces (Scott Meek, PhD) "The future of BCIs depends on new methods that fill the gap between non-invasive and surgically-invasive technologies."

Nobody Codes a Bad System On Purpose (jeremydmiller) "The only real solution is empowered teams that constantly adapt as necessary instead of letting a codebase get out of control in the first place."
Choosing Languages (Steve Klabnik) "I do think that asking why someone chooses a programming language can be valuable"
As an engineer, I’d rather be called stupid than stay silent (Marko Antanaskovic) "would you rather be stupid or silent?"
The Heisenberg uncertainty principle for management’s opinion (Oren Eini) "not giving my opinion on something is actually a well-thought-out strategy"
How I Built a Google Docs Add-On in Three Hours (Using Vibe Engineering) (Gene Kim) “vibe engineering” — you don’t turn your brain off, and instead, you crank it way up, ... with the help of AI"
Beware tech career advice from old heads (Jacob Kaplan-Moss) "The tech industry of 15 or 20 years ago was, again, dramatically different from tech today."
complexity as entropy (Zach Tellman) "When we talk about entropy, it connotes more than temporary disorder; it has the weight of inevitability, an inexorable decline."
Role Legacies (Mike Fisher) "we should strive to leave a legacy in each position that reflects our values and priorities"
Is The Terminator coming for you? (Eric Brechner) Correct: Change is certain. Embrace it!

Software Falsehoods: you can build it cheap, fast, and good - pick two (Aaron Stannard) "It makes intuitive sense but utterly fails in real-world applications."
Debts, Tech and Otherwise (Ted Neward) "Debt in of itself isn't bad; it's when it's Inadvertent/Reckless debt that we find the angst."
Pierre "most eye-melting websites every invented", and "new git platform for small teams working closely together. Code hosting, code review, and CI"
If your product is Great, it doesn’t need to be Good (Paul Buchheit) "Pick three key attributes or features, get those things very, very right, and then forget about everything else."
Great software design looks underwhelming (Sean Goedecke) "Great software design looks simple because it eliminates as many failure modes as possible during the design stage."

What Are the Latest Trends in Healthcare Software Development - Programming Insider (Marc Berman) "Integrating key trends in healthcare software can greatly improve patient experiences."

Irreal: The Power Of Elfeed (Irreal) Interesting Lisp discussion links. Also, strongly agree on Elfeed.

Who gets to do strategy? (Will Larson) "you can work on strategy from anywhere in an organization"
On Troubleshooting (Curiositry) "systematically determining the cause of unwanted behaviour in a system, and fixing it"

Networked devices help head off medical woes and speed recovery (Nick Huber) Digital technologies are helping to guide early clinical interventions and assessments of treatment
11 medical device startups that could change the future of healthcare (Robert Lavine) Interesting startups.

Change Is Hard (Mike Fisher) "Transformation is challenging, yet possible with the right tools and frameworks."
Software Architecture is more than Boxes and Arrows (Urs Enzler) The architectural equivalent of non-functional requirements.
The sources of software complexity (Eric Normand) "Complexity is real. And it’s a killer."
How to Get Better at Delegating (Rebecca Knight, HBR) Good advice.
Radar Trends to Watch: March 2025 (Mike Loukides)