The only thing more powerful than hate is love.
09.02.2026 03:31
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The only thing more powerful than hate is love.
People already working hard to prove how perfect Alex Pretti was. To show he didn't "deserve" to be killed. But it's a trap folks. You're only feeding into a dynamic where people who are considered lesser get no protection. You don't have to be an Alex Pretti to deserve to live.
Never say engineers don't like process; many of them love a process that helps them avoid having conversations (especially disagreements) with other people!
#NoKings
7. Principles: what are they (to us)? 8. Principled Principles: expression of values 9. Guiding Principles: expression of experience 10. Gothic Architecture: System Purpose and Framing Problem 11. Gothic Architecture: Principles Express a General Technical Solution 12. Examples of principles: Sociotechnical Design 13. Examples of principles: Ostrom's principles for Managing a Commons 14. Architecture Principles: Express Shaping Intention 15. Architecture Principles in System Design: Constrain and Scaffold 16. Principles: Why? Foster Conceptual Integrity 17. Conceptual Integrity: to effect fit, coherence and wholeness 18. Principles: Why? Expressions of Strategy: guiding policy in response to strategic diagnosis 19. Principles: How? Principles work by fostering conversations and directing attention 20. Show me! Examples of Architectural Principles: TOGAF 21. Show me! Classic Examples of Architectural Principles: Fred Brooks and Project Stretch Principles 22. Show me! Classics: Unix Principles 23. Show me! Classics: VisiCalc Design Principles 24. Show me! Current Examples 25. Show me! Current Examples: Rudder API Principles 26. Show me! Current Examples: Technical Neutrality (and Counterargument) 27. Principles: How? Guidelines 28. Principles: How? Netflix: Start with System Challenges 29. Principles: How? Netflix: Principle 30. Principles: How? More Examples 31. Principles: How? More Guidelines 32. Try it: Dependencies 33. Try it: Resilience 34. Try it: Team exercise
Also, the Principles module is here:
www.ruthmalan.com/systems/2025...
This summary of the module is a joint effort by François Armand and I:
If you are an engineering leader, it's your job to remove blockers so that engineers can do their best work.
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“software systems are sociotechnical. When I say our systems are sociotechnical, I mean that our thinking, behaviors, and communication patterns are inextricable from the software systems we produce.”
— Diana Montalion
Been reflecting on this: Most communication really doesn’t happen. There is much more unsaid than what is said even though we focus so much on improving how to speak and how to write.
The first focus should be however to be a person others want to communicate with in the first place
In empowering others their delusions get exalted too.
That’s why the most transformative empowerment is the one that holds the individual in their own journey to regaining a sense of power.
This is about mentoring
That's more or less the idea behind the term "AI engineer" as coined by Swyx - for engineers who apply this stuff to build systems but don't necessarily train the models themselves www.latent.space/p/ai-engineer
The struggle is real.
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?
Distributed systems engineer: Eventually.
Ayeee
I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world. I may not complete this last one but I give myself to it. I circle around God, around the primordial tower. I’ve been circling for thousands of years and I still don’t know: am I a falcon, a storm, or a great song?
This poem perfectly understands me.
The value of memorization is going down while the value of critical thinking skills is going up
We are better at testing the former
are looking at very similar set of apps. Photo app, the same instance of Instagram, google homepage. The difference is still at the human level as a president can choose people to engage with their content and I have to do my own.
Consider that and press on.
I’m enthusiastic about what the new GenAI can helps us with, assist with. However there is so much promise in software that is still unfulfilled. It’s not personal, there’s little differentiation - and I don’t mean by social media feed algorithms. I mean for the most part, a president Beyoncé and me
There still no way to set an alarm for every 8 hours for 7 days easy in iOS. A very common use case for an alarm.
That’s the type of problems I wish Apple AI will focus more on. That is to say that the computer revolution hasn’t happened yet
youtu.be/oKg1hTOQXoY?...
A family that focus their attention on the kid having issues ends up neglecting the kid that doesn’t
Some leaders are like that too
Christmas Surprise! GitHub Copilot is now FREE with 2000 code completions a month! github.blog/news-insight...
This is great
“Anger is our friend. Not a nice friend. Not a gentle friend. But a very, very loyal friend. It will always tell us when we have been betrayed. It will always tell us when we have betrayed ourselves.”
Julia Cameron
I hope this week you remember your loyal friends, especially the unexpected ones
“But when you’re incompetent, the skills you need to produce a right answer are exactly the skills you need to recognize what a right answer is. “
The beauty of learning: you start with fuzzy images of a whole area and time passes and it all catches on and you end up being able to do things with what you just learned. It is beautiful, so much appreciation for this process. It holds *possibilities*
Boundaries are so hard because there's no end to how much some people will punish you for having them.
“For something to live something has to die…
I don’t go back and I don’t overthink myself”
RIP Nikki Giovanni