The discussion is on @johncutle.fish's "20 Things I Learned As A Systems (Over) Thinker", on the first Monday of the New Year. It's free, and discussions tend to be free-ranging. ti.to/bredemeyer/c...

I've written another article relating to software architecture (Continuous Architecture specifically) exploring why quality attributes seem to ALWAYS be ignored and what to do about it. www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-yo.... I'd be interested to hear what your experiences are on this.

“Complex systems have a history. Not only do they evolve through time, but their past is co-responsible for their present behaviour. Any analysis of a complex system that ignores the dimension of time is incomplete” — Paul Cilliers #AdventOfSystemSeeing Day 14 www.ruthmalan.com/Advent/2025/...

Trump is a vacuous and selfish grifter www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Trunk-Based Development has a reputation for being fast, fearless, and incredibly effective… but does it actually work in the real world? In this video, we have a company providing us the details of how they put Trunk-Based Development to the test... WATCH ➡️ youtu.be/CR3LP2n2dWw

The quote is from an interview with Maturana that @hibri.net brought to our attention (and we discussed it in a PapersInSystems meetup a while back, led by Hibri). www.open.edu/openlearn/mo...

"Why should I train my developers? They'll just leave." "Why is it so hard to find developers with the skills I need?" One question answers the other. codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/12/06/t...

Pull requests are an evolutionary dead end that we’ve got ourselves into. It delays feedback and we keep piling more reviews into it.

I feel seen.

Excited that my latest talk at the Complexity Lounge is now on YouTube. Titled "Humberto Maturana’s Time: Living in the Present," this talk explores Maturana's 2 modalities of time. This was a great project with new insights gained into how Maturana understood time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AHY...

A theme that really stood out at @gradle.com's DPE Summit conference is that while developers feel productive using GenAI for coding, this isn't necessarily translating into more features/fixes/customer value for organisations. So I wrote a blog post about it gradle.com/blog/develop...

What are the kids dreaming up these days ?

Reductionism can be wrong, but actionable. Complexity can be right, but paralyzing. cutlefish.substack.com/p/tbm-389-ov...

Me one week before the assignment is due: how am I going to write 2500 words? Me two days before the assignment is due: 2500 words is not enough!!!

Maybe the kids don’t need Xmas presents this year www.lego.com/en-gb/produc...

DX's latest study into AI-assisted coding says the same as DORA's recent report - AI won’t save you from your (broken) engineering culture. But it goes further: the biggest gains come from better ways of working, not AI. Wrote up my analysis here 👇

Just posted a new article: Reverse Engineering your Software Architecture with Claude Code to help Claude Code medium.com/nick-tune-te...

The dotcom bubble left us fibre that still powers the internet. The AI boom might leave us a pile of short-lived silicon and silent cathedrals of compute – monuments to a forgotten era. The web was open. AI isn’t. That may prove the real difference.

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

That one legacy piece of code, where the original author is long gone and we are not sure what the code does but are forced to keep it www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Today marks an exciting milestone: Team Topologies, 2nd Edition is published 🎉. Manuel Pais and I share real-world success stories from 10 organisations across every continent - small teams to global corporations, with lessons for all. Grab your copy here → https://www.teamtopologies.com/book

Saturday morning in a cafe and I’m overhearing a conversation “We need to be AI first”… 😝

So small batch sizes are good for productivity :) blog.nilenso.com/blog/2025/09...

👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

The real snowflakes. The pathetic right www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

We really need a good ethnography of distributed thought and action in complex organizations that captures the gap between what most of us narrate post-facto about a decision (and how we insert that narration into critiques) vs. what we know about how organizational thinking actually happens.

Vibe coding with another human aka pair programming is likely to give more benefits. Maybe give that a try?

Highly recommend to those who are interested in systems thinking and making software with other people!

Attempting to get Co-pilot to refactor an old .Net project and it’s failing miserably. Overconfidently makes broad sweeping changes, doesn’t figure out what the compiler errors mean, then makes more changes. Gets itself stuck.

NO. AI. FOR. WAR. CRIMES!!!

How does one focus on work with tbt background threat of WWW3, the language against migrants turning nasty, the erosion of trans rights women’s health and the enshittification of tech…

Great DDD London Meetup yesterday. Thanks for organising @uniquereplica.bsky.social and great to see @andrewhl.bsky.social in person

What’s the state of Platform Orchestrators in 2025? What are folks using? Or rolling out on their own ?

The AI hype cycle is strange. I’ve not seen any tech hype that’s been pushed on to devs forcefully before. Devs are made to feel bad for not using it. Atleast Kubernetes is useful.

My favorite description of the term “privilege” is who gets the benefit of the doubt and who doesn’t. We see it every day in who gets the rules rigorously enforced against them and who gets a slap on the wrist or warning when the rules say there are heavy consequences for their actions.

I may not be the target audience for Dr Who anymore, but my 6 yr olds face lit up seeing the Dr shoot across space using a confetti gun. Love the silliness Ncuti Gatwa’s Dr brings.

Also adored this slide, on "mean time to correctly attributed rage" 😅 @olane.bsky.social

I'm excited about the new phase for the Team Topologies mission - here's how to get involved: teamtopologies.com/news-blogs-n... #TeamTopologies #FastFlow

Andor season 2 is really really good. It’s a chilling story of what’s happening on Earth right now and not in a galaxy far away.

Seriously, the combo of: In London UK, in c# and .NET and #continuousdelivery #cd Is this a thing at all?

Once upon a time, I believed that getting a CS degree was highly correlated with being a mediocre engineer; the REAL stars were dropouts and liberal arts majors. (And other adventures in self-justifying heuristics ☺️) charity.wtf/2025/04/28/o...

The social proof effect is an example of how our brains are wired in specific ways that make us influenceable by people who know how brains work. The “wisdom of crowds” has a powerful subconscious influence. www.theframelab.org/90-percent-w...

The narrators for the Discworld Audio books is amazing. Indira Varma beautifully brings the witches to life

There’s no one more annoying than Observability tooling sales folks.

I finally started writing my thoughts in the current state of remote work. It’s messing up with our organization’s ability to evolve. In nasty ways. ziobrando.substack.com/p/remote-wor...

Team Topologies - @matthewskelton.com & Manuel Pais uk.bookshop.org/book/9781942... www.youtube.com/@fastflowcon...

'Of Software Designers & Broken Combs' - Brittany Hunter: spin.atomicobject.com/broken-comb-...

The Engineer/Manager Pendulum - @charity.wtf Blog post: charity.wtf/2017/05/11/t... Talk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Bkd...

Without Systems Thinking, AI won’t deliver the gains you expect. It’s tempting to throw GenAI at the problem - but applied in isolation, it'll likely deliver little. Worse, it could take you in the wrong direction faster and exacerbate existing problems. blog.robbowley.net/2025/04/07/w... 1/5 🧵

London is pretty at times