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Software Closed as unhelpful: an elegy for Stack Overflow (Forrest Brazeal) LLMs are taking over the world! Ego in Leadership (Mike Fisher) "People want to follow leaders who have a healthy ego." 4 Common Types of Team Conflict — and How to Resolve Them (HBR) 20% of their time managing conflict! Gene Kim on Unpacking Organizational Wiring (Darko Fabijan) Measuring dev productivity (Eric Normand) Follow-up to the James Shore article. James Shore: A Useful Productivity Measure?...

Software Ship of Theseus (Mike Fisher) "organizations, firms, and companies are Ships of Theseus." Why didn’t one of the big clouds buy HashiCorp? (Forrest Brazeal) Good industry perspective. Observations of Leadership (Part One) (Hazel Weakly) lt;dr, but a good engineering leadership read nevertheless. Pharo - Pharo 12 Released Fun Smalltalk environment. Also see: Glamorous Toolkit Explaining Trunk Based Development (Mahesh Mallikarjunaiah) Seems like it should be straight forward, but it's not....

Software The Power of Questions (Mike Fisher) "mastering the art of critical inquiry" The Value of Values (Eric Normand) "A value needs teeth." 4 Software Design Principles I Learned the Hard Way The don't-DRY advice (i.e. DO repeat yourself) is just a cautionary tale of over-abstraction. Security, Maintainability, Velocity: Choose One (Tyler Treat) "The reality, however, is that these three priorities are competing with each other" Language of Business (Mike Fisher) "it's about bridging the gap between technical expertise and business acumen" 6 Common Leadership Styles — and How to Decide Which to Use When (Rebecca Knight, HBR) Med Dev Ozempic And Other Weight Loss Drugs Will Only Work With Digital Health (Andrea Koncz) Resmed Stock Poised for Growth: Buy Rating Affirmed Amid Revenue Upswing and Margin … Interesting that this was published on the same day as the Lilly obesity drug announcement....

Software There is always something: Fighting distractions as a software developer (Dalibor Schon) "This article is a distraction. You should get back to your work! Or not?" Why Leaders Need Self-Awareness (Mike Fisher) A little off topic, but an interesting read nevertheless. Design is not recoverable from implementation (Eric Normand) "Anticipating changes is not design. Design is the higher level understanding of how we decompose the system into interacting parts." Creativity in Software Engineering (Abi Noda) "Creativity is not about originality, it’s about reusability" Med Dev Software as a Medical Device: key considerations for SaMD success | FutureScot (James Graveston) Web A Nobel Prize Winner And Chocolate (David Friedman) "dark chocolate is the way to go" No duh!...

Med Dev Using AI to Help Medical Devices Help Themselves (Kate Stephenson) United States: Preparing For FDA’s New Guidance For AI/ML Medical Devices - Mondaq Software Ruby on Rails Is Not Dead and May Even Be AI Panacea for Devs (Richard MacManus) “GitHub’s primary codebase is a large Ruby on Rails monolith with over 4.2 million lines of code across roughly 30,000 files." Thoughtworks Technology Radar Volume 30: April 2024 Always good to review technology trends....