This talk is a must-watch for people in the Event-Driven space. I saw @noctovis.bsky.social giving it live at this year's DDDEU, and I truly believe that she nailed the versioning topic 👇🙂 www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TCb...

htmx is great

I am so annoyed at scare tactics as a dark pattern trying to get you to upgrade your SaaS subscription. This is Google Docs doing so. I am already a paying customer - and no, I don't have "sensitive files" shared externally. Such a cheap way to try to get more $$, Google

What the fuck? Medium is slapping ads into my posts?? Disgusting. I was already barely posting there, but now I've half a mind to take off the posts I do have on it.

Like, not "next to" - literally in the middle of the article. And phrased in a way that makes it look like a subscriber break or paywall. My writing has always been free to read. You already have "access to all of it" and Medium is, essentially, lying.

Spotify is crashing HARD because of the boycott. Their stock dropped 11% in value over the last month. Let’s keep this going! Tell everyone you know to boycott Spotify. There are plenty of alternatives that don’t run ICE advertisements and screw over artists. We made it easy at boycottspotify.com.

When you have two words like Font and Ontology that share three letters, you naturally need to combine them. Behold the Fontology

We all remember THAT day...

On the blog: Think for Yourself "We should be careful both to avoid 'optimising' and accelerating the creation of legacy code and to mistake such pessimisation as productivity — especially if we're doing so at the expense of joy, time and skill." kevlinhenney.medium.com/think-for-yo...

github.com/CtrlSpice/ot... simple enough for local dev purposes.

"We've just finished building a new platform but none of the development teams want to use it. Can you come and convince them to use it?" I used to get these requests from time-to-time, and as much as I really wanted to say "yes" and charge a lot of money for the privilege, I never accepted.

It's awesome when you find people that you can talk to in depth about multiple topics. Moving away from the surface, and enjoy the messiness of complex problems without a clear solution/approach.

The next #PapersInSystems discussion is Monday Dec 1, 1-2pm Eastern, Josh Reynolds will lead, and the paper is "The Architecture of Complexity" by Herbert Simon. More info/sign up (free of course): ti.to/bredemeyer/a...

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Is anyone using coding agents to continuously update documentation? I have been thinking about baking it into the pull request process. i.e as part of the PR review that triggers multiple subagents to analyze the changes... 1/2

I'm a big believer in making any code base I touch more "introspectable", at design, compile and runtime (whichever makes more sense)

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the password to the louvre surveillance server was "louvre" www.thesocialpost.it/2025/11/02/f...

I'm not a fan of asking coding agents to go explore some repository and then hoping for the best. Takes too long and reduces the reliability of the results. I think something like AGENTS.md is inevitable and maybe even standards around the format of these files .

New on the blog: Think for Yourself "You're about to commit a chunk of LLM-generated code into your product's codebase. Before you do, however, pause to consider and act on these questions." kevlinhenney.medium.com/think-for-yo...

feature requests come in 3 flavors: trivially easy, probably doable, and logically impossible. And the fun part is until you look closely at how it works you don't know which one you've got

Last night I went to the Puca Festival in Trim, Ireland. It's all fun and games until someone unleashes a giant demonic hare.

Adding debugability to code is generally a good practice. I'm finding it's extra useful with coding agents as well. When a test fails, Claude loves cooking up wild theories and jumping to conclusions (even though it's completely wrong 😄)

I built VocalFold, a voice-to-text transcriber for Windows. It's open-source, runs entirely on your machine for full privacy. With keyword replacements and more... 👉 Download it here: github.com/heimeshoff/V... ☕ Like it? You can support the project on Ko-fi to help it grow. ko-fi.com/heimeshoff

Why is anyone ever allowed to use these tools to depict a proper noun? There is NO good reason to allow that, and the tool makers need to be held to account. We have the right to not have our own faces used by others.

as in, generally useful but building america around them was a mistake

The #ServiceStandard codifies how service teams should work when building services. The service quality criteria describe the attributes of what the service teams produce. Service teams need to know how to progress and what the end goal should look like. These need to be connected frameworks 1/X

Just published: Enforcing Software Architecture Living Documentation Conventions medium.com/nick-tune-te... #swArch #ddDesign #legacyModernization

Never go out without your survival wine

Just published: Defining a DSL for Extracting Software Architecture as Living Documentation nicktune.medium.com/defining-a-d... #ddDesign #legacyModernization #swArch

I'm writing another book, and the first few chapters are available through Manning Early Access now! For 50% off! hubs.la/Q03Q9PGP0 More details, and the story of how I came to write it, are on my blog at ericlippert.com/2025/10/30/i... It feels great to be writing again after a long break. :)

Today I pulled an absolute banger of a shot on my flair 58. I finally managed to unlock the deep flavours out of my light roast beans with 0 astringency. It only took 1.5 years of trial and error. Filter paper at the bottom of the basket has been a game changer.

honestly probably good for society

Zuck seems to believe Threads users have been sufficiently baited, so now comes the "switch" part of the "bait and switch".

Hello les internets, des ces phrases, laquelle vous donne envie d’en savoir plus:

NSB now completely *free* for orgs under $1M ! PLUS significant discounts as you grow to $5M !! particular.net/blog/launchi...

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I think that additional challenge is that often, that insane amount of work is poorly tracked, especially in cases where those same people have a reputation of "getting things done" and "can be counted on" ;)

"[that team] they're lazy, unresponsive, take ages to deliver new features, cause a lot of bugs, don't following good testing practices, everybody complains about them" I heard this a lot as a consultant and I was always curious to meet these teams and see how dysfunctional they were. 1/4

Reliable messaging made simple! Learn how to implement Domain Events + Outbox Pattern in .NET using #EFCore interceptors—ensuring consistency across distributed systems without extra complexity. Dive into this @ThePracticalDev article for some super-helpful info: msft.it/63321sCRCz#EFCore#dotnet

#Java and #JVM folks, are you using the Outbox Pattern? If yes, then which tool are you using? It's a genuine question; I'd like to see if my anecdotal observations are real 🙂 Homebrewed? Debezium? Spring Modulith, other? 🤔

Our 5th episode was @roundcrisis.com sharing a story on governance and decisions being reversed by management, which can lead to burnout and distrust....

One thing I wish somebody had told me 10+ years ago is that what you learn about software in training, books, and conferences has as much resemblance to reality as Instagram houses to your life. Yes, there are some useful skills to learn, worthy aspirations to have, etc.

Goeiemorgen Blueskyers.

Grokipedia now appears to be blocking traffic again lol. Always fun covering a Musk product launch, you never know what's going to happen or if the product is even real

getting to know yet another conference, community, and city | A Tester's Journey: NDC Porto 2025 - Filled to the Brim www.lisihocke.com/2025/10/ndc-... #NDCPorto

#Ukraine #UkrainianView

Even the people who wrote Microsoft Office have no clue what these options actually do. They just pick one at random and hope nobody asks about it.

One more reason to keep all my house appliances as dumb as possible. Annoyingly, it's increasingly hard to get "not-smart" versions of everything. Why would I want my treadmill or washing machine to fail without an internet connection? It's more than enough trouble that they need electricity.

Just published the next little blog post in my series exploring software architecture as living documentation. Enterprise-wide Software Architecture as DDD Living Documentation Still at the very early proof-of-concept stage, don't get your hopes up. medium.com/nick-tune-te... #ddDesign #swArch