Software

• Why Generalists Own the Future (Dan Shipper) The impact of AI is widespread.
• Just for Fun. No, Really (Tim Morgan) Why not?

Med Dev

• How Vulnerable Is Your Medical Device to a Cyberattack? (Heather R. Johnson)
• Apple adding sleep apnea feature to smartwatch (Nick Paul Taylor) Could be a big win for ResMed! 🎉
• Ensuring Privacy Security In Smart Medical Devices (Ana Fernandes, Radhika Bogahapitiya, Sharad Patel)

Ai

• 15 quotes about artificial intelligence from world famous people (Taritsyn) Richard Stallman: "people are using the term “artificial intelligence” for bullshit generators."
• The AI Blues (Mike Loukides) "Is AI getting worse? Or are we getting pickier?"
• How to Survive FDA’s Predetermined Change Control Plan [Med Dev] (Erez Kaminski) Draft PCCB FDA guidance: Predetermined Change Control Plans for Medical Devices

Software

• Choosing the Right Real-Time Stream Processing Framework (Shahab Ranjbary) Nice overview of alternatives.
• Legacy (Jason Cohen) Deep thoughts.. "To be human is to defy the uncaring universe by caring deeply anyway"
• 0 dependencies (Tim Bray) I suppose...
• The Boolean Trap (Engineer’s Codex) "well-written code is predictable. Don’t allow surprises."

Blogs

• Words on Founder Mode (rands) More on Paul Graham's latest essay.

Software

• Founder Mode (Paul Graham) Another informative essay.
• Bliki: Cycle Time (Martin Fowler) "cycle time, while a useful concept, is inherently slippery"
• Why bother with argv[0]? (Wietze Beukema) TL;DR for sure, but still can't look away!
• the limb-metaphor for simplicity Yeah, metaphors and analogies have always been problematic in software.
• Greppability is an underrated code metric (Moriz Büsing) Good advice.

Med Dev

• The 10 largest medical device companies - MassDevice Interesting read.
• Data Hazards for SaMD and SiMD (Robert Packard) "The FTA is the best tool for analysis of software data hazards"

Software

• How to Craft a Memorable Message, According to Science (Charan Ranganath, HBR) "The human brain can only keep a limited amount of information in mind at any given time."
• The death of the [modified] developer (Forrest Brazeal) Re: Steve Yegge's "The Death of the Junior Developer"
• Iterative Design (Mike Fisher) "the importance of allowing for quick failures and learning from them"
• The Clojure Paradox (Jorge Tovar) "focus on solving problems without the burden of unnecessary ceremony"
• Working with Protobuf in 2024 (Kevin McDonald) Workflows and tooling.

Web

• Children of You (David Heinemeier Hansson) "watching your own flesh and blood grow up, is a sublime experience." Indeed!

Software

• Predicting the Future of Distributed Systems (Colin Breck) "Object storage is becoming the database"
• No, really: YAGNI (Thorsten Ball) Mr. Obvious, but still something to always practice.
• Influences (Mike Fisher) Risk vs. Uncertainty. And helicopters.

Business

• I’ve Built My First Successful Side Project, and I Hate It (Sebastian Witowski) Informative read. Also, TIL about PineScript.

Med Dev

• Neuralink Says Second Brain Device Implant ’Went Well’ - BNN Bloomberg Future: "recognize handwriting intent to help patients write faster"

Web

• Continuous reinvention: A brief history of block storage at AWS (Dr. Werner Vogels) "a series of incremental improvements over time"