10-Jul-2025 Content of Interest

Ai

Context, Memory, and Voice (rands) "We’re either giddy with excitement about their potential or digging deep to find any and all reasons not to trust them."
A Brief Introduction to Agentic AI (Zashibis) "how to design agents and what tasks they are suitable for."

Thoughts on Motivation and My 40-Year Career (mipsytipsy) Great read. "It’s about living a meaningful life, and acting with integrity, and building things of enduring value"
The Cool Head in a Crisis (Mike Fisher) "While others spin faster, the great leader slows down."
[What is OpenTelemetry? a basic guide] (Elizabeth Mathew) Good overview.

A new era of Stack Overflow (Prashanth Chandrasekar, Jody Bailey) Mission: Cultivate community, power learning, and unlock growth.

Thayer Method (Mike Fisher) "the responsibility for learning lies with the student."
When Your Source of Truth is Reality (Dan Lew) "be humble enough to recognize that your database plays second fiddle to reality"
The New Skill in AI is Not Prompting, It’s Context Engineering (Philipp Schmid) AI technology is evolving very quickly!
What Does a Post-Google Internet Look Like (Mathew Duggan) "Anyone attempting to make an online store is gonna get mob-style shakedown."
Tools I love: mise(-en-place) (Michael Bang) 17K stars is good indicator that mise is a useful tool
My Lights Run on Bash (Tomasz Kramkowski) Interesting approach to home automation.
Modeling Imperfection (Mike Fisher) "being willing to admit that we don’t have all the answers is only the first step in demonstrating great leadership through being vulnerable."
Ruthless prioritization while the dog pees on the floor (Jason Cohen) "Because you’re so focused on the most important thing, other things lay fallow.

Be a Duck (Sometimes) (Tom Mango) "Being a duck is about keeping your commitments."
In Praise of “Normal” Engineers (charity.wtf) "The smallest unit of software ownership and delivery is the engineering team."
Rolling the ladder up behind us (Xe Iaso) Interesting read.
What comes after Stack Overflow? (Matt Asay) Cannibal’s dilemma!
Model Once, Represent Everywhere: UDA (Unified Data Architecture) at Netflix (Netflix TechBlog) Next-level domain design management. Interesting concepts.

How To Fall Behind in The Age of AI (Charlie Guo) Good post. "maintain a comfortable position at the trailing edge of progress"
Surviving the Great Commoditizer: Stop Getting ‘Good’ at ChatGPT (Erik Dietrich) TL;DR, but a good read anyway.
AI Angst (Tim Bray) "The rent is too damn high"

Everyone Gets a Database (Stephen O’Grady) "Database consolidation continues apace"
Avoiding Management (Joe Marshall) "The worst part of managing is dealing with people." Yep!
Small Programs and Languages (Dave Gauer) Small languages "only require you to understand a few core ideas and give you limitless power in return."

Short-term vs Long-term (Mike Fisher) How to balance investments
That’s How We’ve Always Done Things Around Here (Alex Cristea) Why software teams stick to old habits — and how to challenge them.
I am disappointed in the AI discourse (Steve Klabnik) "What is breaking my brain a little bit is that all of the discussion online around AI is so incredibly polarized."
Being Bored Could Actually Be Good For Your Brain, Scientists Reveal (Michelle Kennedy, Daniel Hermens) "In small doses, boredom is the necessary counterbalance to the overstimulated world in which we live."

Neuralink raises $650M to help expand patient access (Elise Reuter)
A Neuralink Rival Just Tested a Brain Implant in a Person (Emily Mullin) "looking to restore speech and communication in people with spinal cord injury, stroke, or ALS."