Weekend thoughts on Gas Town, Beads, slop AI browsers, and AI-generated PRs flooding overwhelmed maintainers. I don't think we're ready for our new powers we're wielding. lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/1/18/ag...

“If we conflate the richness of biological brains & human experience with the information-processing machinations of deepfake-boosted chatbots, or whatever the latest AI wizardry is, we do our minds, brains & bodies a grave injustice.” — @anilseth.bsky.social, winner of @berggruen.org Essay Prize

that's not software engineering. that's gambling. www.implicator.ai/werner-vogel...

We shape our environments, and thereafter they shape us. From «The Resonant Computing Manifesto»

In cellular automata, simple rules create elaborate structures. Now researchers are working backward — starting with the result to learn the rules behind it. @georgemusser.com, SFI’s 2025 Journalism Fellow, explores how this could reshape computation and self-organization in Quanta:

Four responses to overload, by Woods and Hollnagel, summarized by @dobbse.bsky.social: burnout.wiki.do/view/four-re...

Cartoon by Ellis Rosen for The New Yorker.

I love the Dijkstra quote: > The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.

A version of the m-dash that's purposefully human. www.theamdash.com

“The way you work is as much a part of your product as the product itself” #dddeu

From an engineering perspective, software wants to be decoupled. From a business value perspective, software wants to be deeply interconnected. That's the fundamental friction that software design, and Domain-Driven Design specifically, attempts to address.

The article has connected some dots in my notes. Therefore, a thread🧵: filling the gap between “gravity” and “feature lift,” and how to empower product teams to make better decisions. Where domain eng. brings advantages, and how platform eng. could fit in. A story thro a data-flow perspective.

Excellent article on positioning domain engineering between product engineering and infrastructure engineering. I fully agree with the financial model section. However, I prefer to call it ‘platform engineering: the hard parts,’ simply because in the middle, we face more volatile semantics.

An unfolding is by its nature personal, and requires human input and human feeling from the people doing the work, as an essential part of its contribution to the formation of the environment. From “What is an unfolding?”

Every piece of technology is also a coordination problem

«The most effective response to cynicism isn’t to argue against it. It’s to build things that make it obsolete. Want to prove systems can work? Build better systems. Think people are fundamentally corrupt? Create incentive structures that reward cooperation and long-term thinking.»

Organisations that take advantage of this fear to squeeze more out of their people might see short-term gains but will ultimately be left behind. Now is the time to double-down and invest in fostering trust, encouraging challenge, and creating a culture of safety.

While yes, on one hand things fall apart, entropy rules. On the other, life - and all of us, are momentary reversals where things become more ordered. In this brief time in the stream, we all have the opportunity to send something uniquely our own against the flow spinweaveandcut.com/sketching-en...

“How do you live a digital life whose primary byproduct isn’t resentment? The most straightforward way: you stop posting. You leave the party.”

The second law of thermodynamics states that a quantity called entropy is on the rise, indicating that the universe is predisposed to disorder. But the idea of entropy is evolving. www.quantamagazine.org/what-is-entr...