50 years later, I still hear people citing The Mythical Man Month weekly. Brooks was right - adding people to a late project makes it later. You can't fix a derailed train with wider tracks and more carriages

I like this article because it contrasts a consulting mindset, where outputs are dictated by clients, to a platform product mindset, where outcomes are co-created and scaled. I think this is a strong use case for AI and building platforms. Especially the feedback cycles www.svpg.com/forward-depl...

How to Target Non-Developers with Your Developer Product everydeveloper.com/how-to-targe...

Gartner predicts 30% of AI projects will fail while AI has eaten 50% of their own stock price. The call is coming from inside the house, those vendors who pay to play don't like the irony

Spring AI introduces Boot Starters and annotations that streamline MCP server and client development, enabling repeatable, consistent workflows for AI integration spring.io/blog/2025/09...

LLMs will write tests that check implementation unless you give them a few seeds to steer them toward desired behavior. It's like testing how the sausage is made instead of whether it tastes right rednafi.com/go/test_stat...

The German Speaking SAP User Group (DSAG) Technology Days looks like a good show, big crowd, like a Teched of old The SAP exit strategy - "Call, Raise or Fold?" It's interesting a user group are framing "Fold" as a legitimate option e3mag.com/en/dsag-tech...

Software teams obsess over features. But there are 4 types of work: features, bugs, tech debt, and risk. Ignoring the rest leads to burnout and brittle systems. This podcast offers 7 mental models to make software delivery sane, sustainable, and even enjoyable.

Sal Saperstein was robbed

Technological Jerk: Why Users Resist Your New Features (And What to Do About It) itrevolution.com/articles/tec...

Larry Ellison used to battle SAP for enterprise supremacy now he's running US TikTok and is the "AI landlord" powering OpenAI and Meta. Meanwhile SAP circles back to sovereign cloud. Maybe Neo was "The One" that got away!

Made me lol

n8n Explained in 2 Minutes, another project for the homelab, reminds me of yahoo pipes youtu.be/_Wf0NikMyAA?...

A brilliantly crafted post that proves long-form writing with GenAI can still deliver depth and clarity. Made me reflect on how many senior consultants I've worked with who have truly embrace the idea that "Growth starts with ownership". levelup.gitconnected.com/beyond-the-c...

Made me lol

Rails World 2025 Opening Keynote - David Heinemeier Hansson Some of the benchmarking of local vs cloud and IOS vs Linux CI builds are quite compelling Say what you will about DHH and his strong opinions, he is entertaining youtu.be/gcwzWzC7gUA?...

“I’m not entertaining this without receipts.” Love me a rant Devs are notoriously bad at estimating. If AI makes us 10X better, where are all the new apps? Where's the Shovelware? Why AI Coding Claims Don't Add Up mikelovesrobots.substack.com/p/wheres-the...

Strategy is what you do not what you say. Culture is what you tolerate not what you post. A couple of SI leads have told me they were told to choose options that use the most resources even when they preferred not to, such as avoiding RAP citing a ‘skills shortage’. The real strategy and culture.

After 14 years of work through word of mouth, cold interviewing feels like translating a lifetime of credibility into a 30-minute chat with strangers.

Building APIs for Developers and AI agents. OpenAPI specs require lots of bike shedding to allow humans to build SDKs and clients. MCP preference is focusing on the needed services and key properties, plus a jq query for the results, to reduce context and tokens share.google/DHPR4S3u46C0...

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. -- F Scott Fitzgerald --

Yesterday went rubbernecking at an open house in the neighborhood. Some dude says cynically 'That rug really tied the room together' and 4 or 5 of us cracked up. Nothing bonds strangers like a perfectly timed Lebowski quote

John Candy: I Like Me, official trailer. 🇨🇦❤️❤️ ❤️🍁🇨🇦TEAM CANADA FOREVER🇨🇦🍁❤️ ❤️🍁🇨🇦VIVE LE CANADA 🇨🇦🍁❤️

I’m sceptical about SAP open-sourcing MCP tooling. It seems more like a way to reduce friction and keep existing developers engaged than a real effort to reach new developers or grow the community. If you want to open source something meaningful, start with CAP.

Welcoming The Browser Company to Atlassian - big fan of Arc and Dia, feel this could be big for enterprise SaaS if they can connect the dots www.atlassian.com/blog/announc...

Growing up my dad and most of my friends' dads, were frugal. The way it was. I like this article because it reminds me that frugality isn’t about being cheap, it’s about being intentional. Optimize the small stuff so you can go big where it counts www.thefrugalarchitect.com/architects/c...

Spoke with a recruiter yesterday, many SAP RISE customers are already on their second or third systems integrator (SI). If you're on your third... maybe it's not the SI. Just saying.

Many dev roles say they want 'problem-solvers' but actually want coders who follow orders. Critical thinking? That's for enterprise architects. Systems thinking? For solution architects. Projects reward fast, linear execution, not thinking #fasterdebt

Tools, of course, can be the subtlest of traps. -- Neil Gaiman --

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary -- Blaise Pascal --

When people are feeling insecure, they'd rather have someone who is strong and wrong rather than somebody who is weak and right -- Bill Clinton --

OH: You can do a lot of complaining in the same time it takes to fix it

How we vibe code at FAANG. www.reddit.com/r/vibecoding...

blog.codeminer42.com/how-to-solve... Good read that clearly shows steps for solving programming problems. I liked how the author used code to understand the problem first, then cleverly inferred how to translate that logic into SQL. Reasoning with complex things to make them simple.

Why was Apache Kafka created? bigdata.2minutestreaming.com/p/why-was-ap...

Finally listened to the Acquired Steve Ballmer episode. The story behind "Developers, Developers, Developers" is fascinating that mindset literally shaped today’s entire enterprise cloud landscape www.acquired.fm/episodes/the...

Didn't want to watch F1, but glad I did

It's wild times when South Park has become the most credible news source

Remember when we worried TikTok's algorithm was making our kids dumber? Thank god they don't use LinkedIn

Caching the Last Executed Request sapui5.hana.ondemand.com/1.135.0/#/to... - it reads like its on by default for Fiori Elements List reports, lets see if apps load faster

Building with AI isn’t just software. It’s systems with unpredictable behavior. You need more control, more testing, and tighter scopes. Start small. Measure intent. Let the system earn trust before handing over agency. Otherwise, you’re debugging ghosts. www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/why-your-a...

ZX Spectrum Next Issue 3 » Making History One Next at a Time — Kickstarter share.google/KQAEYRxO3fCq...

Interesting read contrasting vibe-driven coding with spec-driven development. The shift feels too far left into project management, leaving a gap in the middle where experience counts. www.infoq.com/news/2025/08...

Made me lol

For a while I have been pondering the nuances between deploy, in production, released and shipped, this article does a good job of explaining them. Shipping isn’t a technical milestone, it’s a social one. You’ve shipped when leadership "believes" you’ve shipped. www.seangoedecke.com/how-to-ship/

"But what about support?" I enjoyed the conversation around uniform compensation, everyone has equal skin in the game, every hire is truly a peer. It’s a foundation for trust and shared purpose, good support deserves more money cause it is frontline work

This ep was sharp, funny, and uncomfortably real. Behind Scotts optimism is real fear, about what capitalism is doing to tech and society and our kids. “I’m worried about Zuckerberg, not China” hits hard. It’s selective optimism, not blind faith.

time to repurpose one of the many laptops to Omarchy, been using Omakub on my homelab for a while now, and i am really liking Zellij, LazyGit, LazyDocker etc, but the tiling windows in Omarchy look next level manuals.omamix.org/3/omacom/73/...

Been looking into DBOS, interesting idea storing orchestration and telemetry with transactions. Trade-off: storage costs vs. time travel debugging. Rebuild workflow state from any point, play backwards/forwards, explore "what ifs," recover without stitching logs together.