Are Integrated Tests a Scam? TDD, Architecture, Fast Feedback – J. B. Rainsberger - YouTube:
if programmers are too productive […] and if their primary interaction is with a machine […], they are not practicing interacting with each other.
Louise Adler resigns as director of Adelaide writers’ week | The Guardian:
This is a managerialist term intended to stop thinking, one doesn’t have to be a student of history to know that art in the service of ‘social cohesion’ is propaganda.
We’re drowning in managerial jargon.
AI and architecture - Barry O’Reilly - LinkedIn:
Claims of AI driven improvement, even if true, seem to ignore the wealth of low hanging fruit that can improve individual and especially collaborative software development. This post applies that lens to architecture.
The first horrible truth is that developers pre-AI weren’t skipping architecture because they didn’t have time, it’s because architecture is orders of magnitude harder than coding and very few can do it. When we talk about the 10X dev we are very often talking about people with architecture skills. It requires skill, experience, and a little bit of luck in landing the right projects across a career. It requires technical depth, lateral thinking, and the ability to work with different kinds of people.
The second horrible truth is that developers who haven’t got there yet are almost always utterly convinced that they’re already there. This makes discussing architecture very difficult and leads to lines being drawn around architecture and gatekeeping to keep the conversations sane.
Well said.
Regime change or shake down? Po-tay-to po-tah-to.
The Plan is to Make the Internet Worse. Forever. | Aaron Bastani Meets Cory Doctorow - YouTube:
Time for a Post-American Internet
Looking forward to reading Enshittification.
I know I’m rather late to the game but finding myself obsessed with overall software enshittification of late. Might be AI or updating to iOS 26 or just steady decline in quality of software overall not sure but it’s all I can see some days.
When helping teams be effective with tools such as User Story Maps or Example/Feature Mapping this can be a difficult mindset switch, especially for those coming from a visual/interface design first process.
Kraftwerk on BBC’s Tomorrow’s World 1975 - YouTube:
Kraftwerk have a name for this; it's machinemusik.
Michael Brooks takes a question on Israel
I deeply miss Michael Brooks; his moral clarity, his silly humour and his generosity. A stone cold mensch.
Israeli defence minister plans to move Gaza’s population to camp in Rafah | BBC News
Israel Katz told journalists […] he wanted to establish a “humanitarian city” on the ruins of the city of Rafah to […] house […] eventually the whole 2.1 million population.
Grab your earplugs as the silence of the reaction to this will be deafening.
ClojureScript from First Principles — David Nolen - YouTube:
Recorded at Clojure/NYC meetup on June 4th, 2025.
It warms my heart to know that this project is very much alive.
AI is the suture.
The fundamental misunderstanding in Team Topologies | Patricia Aas
Inverse Conway Maneuver is not a logical consequence of Conway’s Law
What if AI takes your job?
Software engineers these days somehow mix a sometimes perverse Developer Experience fetish with a fatalistic refusal to sharpen their tools.