A similair effect could occur around development of open-source software. As there is less incentive to build and support new libraries and frameworks, this effectively could wither the whole ecosystem. Feels like a recursive effect, reinforcing current state and uptake of closed source.
it's amazing how there's a renaissance of great terminal interfaces
Lots of highlights for me in this article from @suksr.bsky.social
susannekaiser.net/building-fou...
Quite the CrispAndClearType!
Short musings on "cognitive debt" - I'm seeing this in my own work, where excessive unreviewed AI-generated code leads me to lose a firm mental model of what I've built, which then makes it harder to confidently make future decisions simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/15/...
A thin crescent Earth in the black of space and sun glare. NASA/Apollo 15/Kevin M. Gill
A crescent view of Earth seen through the lunar module window of the outbound Apollo 15 mission in late July 1971. Along with the thinly illuminated Earth, the camera picked up a lot of sun glare on the thick window glass.
flic.kr/p/2rW2tui
New blog post: Nobody knows how the whole system works
surfingcomplexity.blog/2026/02/08/n...
As individual/company I am fine to build upon abstractions or take dependencies on 3rd parties that are stable and sustainable. However if ourselves, we (at scale) generate, depend and build abstractions/systems we don't understand anymore,but still need to maintain, we set ourselves up for failure.
New blog post ✍️
Spec-driven development is not a return to waterfall.
AI makes coding faster, but speed was never the real problem. The real bottleneck is still requirements and specifications.
👉 Read the post: martinelli.ch/why-spec-dri...
LLM code gen is allergic to software design.
It's a side-effect of limited context - drives it to primitive obsession and a bunch of other smelly designs.
You can navigate it to good outcomes, but it's very reflective of the difference between "scripts" and "software" if you don't pay attention.
Snowy landscape in the Central Bohemian Uplands
Uranus and its rings as Voyager approached it from the south
Uranus, enhanced to make discrete clouds visible
The rings of Uranus in a deep exposure. The spacecraft tracked rings, so the stars are smeared and appear as trails.
The major moons of Uranus to scale.
Today in 1986, Voyager 2 made humanity's first and only encounter with Uranus, revealing its clouds, rings, and fascinating zoo of moons.
Carney: "American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, a stable financial system... this bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition... recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as a weapon. Tariffs as leverage ... "
the new year
I've posted my latest recap of the world of databases: www.cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/blog/...
All the hot topics from the last year:
• More Postgres action!
• MCP for everyone!
• MongoDB gets litigious with FerretDB!
• File formats!
• Market movements!
• The richest person in the history of the world!
Just published my annual predictions update, tracking from Jan 1st 2018, with new commentary and new ten year predictions. It is long. rodneybrooks.com/predictions-...
daily routine
Hoi @volkskrant.nl , waarom krijg ik dit soort push reclame als ik voor een abonnement betaal?
World-Class Industry? Alleen met een World-Class Society
https://ioplus.nl/nl/posts/world-class-industry-alleen-met-een-world-class-society
@nieuws.nos.nl eerlijke vraag. Waarom worden acties van/rondom Trump en Amerikaanse politiek veelvuldig gebracht als prominente artikelen op de NOS app. Wat is de relevantie hier voor Nederland? Zoals dit item nos.nl/l/2595329, vanwaar die focus, er gebeurt toch wel meer nieuwswaardigs in de wereld?
Let’s talk about “Move fast and break things.” First of all, Facebook itself changed its motto to “Move fast with stable infrastructure” in 2014. So much for breaking things, at least if you’re a soulless corporate behemoth.
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Please see #apihub for the new API registry of Apigee. Focused primarily on synchronous APIs.
docs.cloud.google.com/apigee/docs/...
Mushrooms on dead wood in the Slangenburg
Autumn walk and finding abundant mushrooms on dead wood in the Slangenburg.
Yes, I actually like the summarization feature in Confluence to provide me a short 2min spoken digest of functional designs drafted by our analysts.
The idea of AI as a new abstraction for software keeps coming back – prompts as the source of truth, code as an artefact.
Why it won't work any time soon, even if things like non-determinsim and hallucination become solved problems.
ameland hadden with low tide
ameland hadden with low tide and people searching for seafood
ameland wad
ameland dunes and lighthouse
Biking roundtrip on the #Ameland after the #tri-ambla. The #wadden are beautiful!
Coordination is not free -- And the corollary, the more systems (of software or people ) need to interact to make change, the higher the cost
Great collection of quality articles. Thanks
Congrats, quite a ride!
