Great bundle of books about functional programming from @pragprog.com #functional #programming #software #books #humbleBundle www.humblebundle.com/books/ultima...

Interesting development in the space of laws about age verification in software. Apps and workflows that need age verification should bear the burden of age verification; not the underlying platform. bsky.app/profile/carl...

Of course, this development reminds me of model driven development, secure-by-design, efforts like SeMA (arxiv.org/abs/2001.10052), and Joydeep Mitra (: #security #software

Bring Back Idiomatic Design https://lobste.rs/s/5ywxzh ##design

Jen Easterly's remark in @wired.com's www.wired.com/story/anthro... is on the mark 🎯 Leaning on Alex Zenla's remark, it may be time to develop and use preventive approaches to apriori eliminate the links that can be strung together into long chain vulnerabilities. #vulnerability #software #security

With #AI getting good at #hacking, is it time to start spending more time+resource preventing #vulnerabilities instead of curing them? I think, while getting #security correct (e.g., secure-by-design) can be hard, it may be relatively cheaper and easier than finding+curing vulnerabilities in code.

"The AI Great Leap Forward" leehanchung.github.io/blogs/2026/0... > The mandate today is identical, just swap the nouns. Every company, every function, every individual contributor is expected to close the AI gap. Ship AI features. Build agents. Automate workflows. 👇 > The Famine Comes Later

Cancer's tumor eating bacteria 😮 Will we have a cure for cancer in the coming decade or two? 🤞 😎 #science #health #medicine #cancer

I suppose the writing style is a reason why I read some books faster than others. Based on what I usually read and how I write, some sentence structures are easier to read and faster to understand than others. #reading #writing

KMP has got competition 👀 It will be interesting to see how this change will affect mobile app development space and vice versa 🍿 #kotlin #Mobile #Android #ios #multiplatform

Videos from MTV's golden era 🤩 #music #video #musicsky

Recently, I read a post titled "self-cancelling subscription" that was about a buggy subscription system. But, why not make automatic-cancellation a feature? 🤔 For example, Netflix provides an option to automatically cancel/suspend my subscription if I do not use the service for, say, two months.

This six-part post describes typical technical and process rot in orgs when product quality (e.g., security, reliability) and op excellence are incrementally sacrificed in the name of velocity, time-to-market, etc. #technology #management #techdebt isolveproblems.substack.com/p/how-micros...

🌶️ IIRC "High Output Management" (book) suggests the main purpose of middle managers (MMs) is to facilitate information flow across the company. If it is so at Block, Jack may pull it off in this regard. Also, we will know if and how much MMs at Block were helping with coaching and career dev 👀

When folks and movies suggested that the next big war would be for water, who would have thought it would be for sea water and not for fresh water? 🤦

Interesting development in the Math community. I wonder about the final outcome. Also, how many other academic communities will respond in similar ways to recent events? #academicsky #mathematics #politics www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-...

So, is now a good time for new companies to break into the computer component market -- processor, memory, storage -- and disrupt any mono/douplies? #computers #hardware www.heise.de/en/news/Proc...

Following terms are synonymous / closely related. 1. Externalities (economics) 2. Collateral Damage (military) 3. Ripple Effect (systems thinking) 4. Second-Order Effect (systems thinking)

@wired.com was a breath of fresh air in 2025. Transparent reporting, level-headed opinions, and pretty good political coverage (for a predominantly tech outlet). None of the I-will-write-cos-I-can crap, e.g., Marc Thiessen 💩 at @washingtonpost.com. #news www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/b...

Seems like document versioning meme from academia -- paper_final_last_done_1034PM_03042026.docx.

In the coming days, Q: The dashboard is not working. Can we fix it? A: I don't know cos' I don't know how it works or where it is deployed. 🤦🤦🤦

Next change will be "pay to opt-out of training."

@atlassian.bsky.social has made small changes to #Bitbucket over the last few months and is doing more in the coming months. I believe even more changes will come. To help users plan, please share the list of changes planned for 2026 and then roll them out incrementally. Thanks in advance!

I am waiting for the day when we can edit skeets on #bluesky 🤞

If operating systems require age info, I will provide 10/May/1857 as the DoB when setting up my computers.

"Things don’t have to be this way, but they won’t change unless consumers see the situation clearly and refuse to accept it. .... If they design for complacency, they should get some of the blame when their product fails." #automation #AI #risk www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

A depressing view of the business of training AI. www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

You are never going to believe which company is behind the age verification laws: www.reddit.com/r/linux/comm...

By precedence, any SM account can make statements like "Grammarly suggested XYZ is bad" until #Grammarly contacts each account to opt out of such statements, right? How are companies running without common sense thinking? 🤦🤦🤦

Why not combine the review system and the code generation system, and generate code without logical errors? 🤔 It seems like a case of a merchant selling both the poison and its antidote.

"Whatever courts eventually decide about AI reimplementation, the question we need to answer first is not a legal one. It is a social one. Do those who take from the commons owe something back?" #OSS #copyleft #license #software #GenAI writings.hongminhee.org/2026/03/lega...

Interesting take on how #software has evolved from a passive tool to an always-on, interrupting, and snooping entity 👏 Also, on how enabling techniques like telemetry and experimentation have affected #softwareengineering 👏 blog.mikeswanson.com/backseat-sof... Source: "Design Lobster" newsletter

I've been expecting to see this shift for a while and it is interesting to see it actually starting to happen.

Rich and balanced comparison of the performance of SPA and hypermedia based web app with interesting findings 👏 The post includes limitations/caveats along with balanced when-to-use recommendations 👍 #SPA #web #hypermedia #performance zweiundeins.gmbh/en/methodolo...

Awesome analysis about the #human aspect of #Linux #kernel bugs 👏👏👏 Many interesting observations that can be considered by all #software #engineering teams. pebblebed.com/blog/kernel-...

"The only solution is to educate our children about life with digital abundance. Throwing them into the deep end when they’re 16 or 18 is too late." -- blog.system76.com/post/system7... by @system76.bsky.social I am reminded of bsky.app/profile/alex.... Was Internet an information discontinuity?

TIL eventually all paid competitions at #kaggle will require identity verification to ensure every user is a live human with a single account 🤦 Verification is done by uploading selfies to the Persona company 🤦 #security #privacy www.kaggle.com/contact#/acc...

I am convinced we are on the verge of the first "AI agent worm". This looks like the closest hint of it, though it isn't it quite itself: an attack on a PR agent that got it to set up to install openclaw with full access on 4k machines grith.ai/blog/clineje...

👏 The sentence following what @carnage4life.bsky.social quoted paints a fuller picture: "Personally, I saw very limited gains in productivity from AI, nothing nearly profound to justify tossing out half of the company's workforce along with institutional knowledge and expertise."

My kid's teacher objected to a write-up suspecting it may have been generated by AI. The trigger was the use of richer than usual vocabulary, which resulted from discussing and reviewing the write-up with me. How are students supposed to learn without discussion and feedback?

What could go wrong with AI? 🤦 #AI #technology #LLM

So, can companies continuously capture/build and share their #institutional #knowledge across their workforce? If so, #LLMs can help one of the most frustrating aspects of corporate work 👏 Of course, there will be security risks (e.g., need-to-know info) that are worth tackling given the benefits.

Nice overview of actor-based approach to concurrency -- isolated processes, messages, and supervision -- supported by BEAM and OTP.

Given the recent geopolitical and economic rifts between USA and EU and Canada, I wonder "how will the EU nations and Canada respond if USA were to request help in the latest middle east conflict (like in the 2000s)?" Let's hope we don't have to answer this question🤞

A great overview of the evolution of #container technology via #Docker. It also provides a quick peek into the various technology bits that enable containers work. If you want to learn more about how containers work, then consider starting with wizardzines.com/zines/contai... by @b0rk.jvns.ca.

As "cloning" software becomes easier with LLM-based SE (which works better with oracles, e.g., tests), can tests serve as the new moat? They can but only until we figure out efficient ways to generate effective tests. saewitz.com/tests-are-th... #oss #softwaredevelopment #LLM

Neat idea that leverage randomness in natural phenomena -- randomness in a tear -- to improve security. #technology #security news.mit.edu/2026/chip-pr...

Let's pause and think a bit. Do consumers want electronics (e.g., TVs, game consoles, mobile phones) or #AI? The answer and, hence, the action is obvious. Focus on what works and helps consumers and then pursue AI development. #technology #electronics

This duet cover of Radiohead's "Creep", between a son and his Shastriya Sangeet classically trained mother, is the mash-up I didn't know how much I needed in my life. Totally spontaneous sobbing may have taken place. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZoH...

"The Computer Scientist as Toolsmith II" by Frederick P. Brooks, Jr., is pertinent in today's tech world as it argues for intelligence amplifying systems instead of mind-mimicking/replacing systems (current #AI). dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... #science #engineering 1/2