08-Apr-2024 Content of Interest

Med Dev

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.
Book Review: “Tidy First?” by Kent Beck (Jimmy Koppel) Beck has done some good work in the past, but this book, not so much.

It’s Not About The Great Idea (Mike Fisher) "great ideas don’t magically turn into great products."
Google Testing Blog: What’s in a Name? Good advice: "thoughtful names can save the reader (and writer) a lot of time and frustration."
The Missing Link Between Strategy and Innovation (David L. Rogers, HBR) Above my pay-grade, but still a good read.
The WORST Domain Modeling Mistakes! (Derek Comartin) "a heavy focus on technology in terms of programming languages, frameworks, libraries and tools, rather than the business problem at hand."

An architect is not an evangelist (Bart Wullems)
Productivity in Silence: The Ideal of Eliminating Meetings (netleon) "Meeting optimization not only saves time but also often reveals and eliminates deep imperfections in internal processes."
Semantic AJAX-HTML (Herman Martinus) Fiddling around with HTMLX
A Few Words on Testing (Thorsten Ball) "... maybe there’s no correlation between software quality and tests."

IAM Is The Worst (Mathew Duggan) Is GCP and AWS access control bad and broken?
What Mob Programming is Bad At (Hillel Wayne)
Impact of AI on organizations (Mike Fisher) "a world in which every job a human performs will be aided by artificial intelligence"
On The Importance of Getting The Foundations Right (Milos Gajdos) Good advice: "Never stop revisiting the basics regularly."
Everyone should be an architect (Bart Wullems) Foster "a culture of shared ownership over architecture"
40 years of programming (Lars Wirzenius) "To do good work you need to take care of yourself."
The “10x engineer:“ 50 years ago and now (Gergely Orosz) 50 years in computing is a LONG time!

Developers are on edge (David Heinemeier Hansson) "The Future is out of your hands and out of your control."

State of the Terminal Ah, the VT100 brings back memories of the VAX days.
Microsoft makes the promise of AI in healthcare real through new collaborations with healthcare organizations and partners (Robert Dahdah)
So you’ve been reorg’d… "most reorgs are reactions to some form of failure"
Beyond Micro Frontends: Effective Composable Decoupled Applications on Cloud Native Infrastructure (Natalia Venditto) "I will avoid as much as possible the term micro-frontend, because we're speaking about rich decoupled applications in the cloud."
Complexity in Software Engineering (Seorazer) Vortex of doom!
S3 is files, but not a filesystem What S3 is good at and what it is bad at.
Deliberate Abstraction Abstractions: "Used incorrectly, it can turn conceptually simple things into endless mud."

Your Next Job: Brain-Computer Interface Surgeon (Caitlin Kelly) "A decade from now, BCI devices will look very different from what we have today."“
No installation required: how WebAssembly is changing scientific computing “There’s a small subset of applications where it makes sense to use it, but when it does make sense it can be very powerful."