Very sorry to hear about the tragedy at CSD in Berlin. Sad that these events forced me to start writing again and change the direction of my writing after months of thoughtful pause. I'm afraid we'll meet more similar events soon.

Sometimes I see "European Digital Sovereignty" and "AWS" in one partnership sentence. No, sorry, you can pick only one from them.

– Are you part of the problem or the solution? – Both. – ...?? We’re all in the same system that created the problem. That’s the uncomfortable truth. But a good reminder for things we know

I wrote a photo essay with 20+ of my favourite tech museums in the world, and tried to figure out what makes a great museum in the process. I am very curious what tech museums you like – and why! aresluna.org/fav-tech-mus...

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A photo essay of 20-something best tech museums I’ve been to

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Welcome to the world of Bluetooth headset vulnerabilities. "[We] discovered the custom Bluetooth protocol... pairing was not required.... an attacker within Bluetooth range can connect to the device and manipulate RAM and flash contents without prior authentication." insinuator.net/2025/12/blue...

Still, the same procrastination-panic feelings about what to write in each 360 performance review for many people to cause less harm within the harmful processes

If new AI browsers can help get rid of pop-ups over pop-ups across the whole internet, it might be worth a shot. Or not. And have a good Monday! #ai

@rebeccawb.bsky.social @mathiasverraes.bsky.social @ruthmalan.bsky.social Thank you for the lovely discussion yesterday! If you can advise, one question followed after the discussion: what could be an approach to choose our own blocks (and understand what's essential for us)? #papersinsystems

For introvert leaders, if your party is not like this, don't call me. p.s. Okay, I still can occasionally come...

🏃‍♂️ I'm running the Berlin Half Marathon 2026 for Sea-Watch.org. They conduct vital search & rescue operations in the Mediterranean, saving lives when others turn away. 21.1km for me = solidarity with their life-saving mission. Please support me: sea-watch.org/en/join-us/m... #BerlinHalf #SeaWatch

99 percent of problems in road traffic can be solved by brakes. Not by fast reaction, and wow, look how the driver made a heroic maneuver. What are we doing in tech? We are trying to solve all local issues by speeding up.

Was the vacation long enough if I still remember my corporate laptop password? 🤔

The whole week, I was trying to understand what the calendar event "Wrong ideas" I created. Now 5 minutes, how it's in progress. Still no idea.

I’ve finally created a home for some of my scribbles: dorotaparad.ch I will fill it out with my past and new articles in the coming weeks and beyond. (1/6)

One of the cartoons from Physics for Cats

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My next book of science cartoons Physics for Cats is available to preorder now! Links here: www.tomgauld.com

*** why pictures work better than words when designing systems ***

The Sensemakers Club@thesensemakersclub.bsky.social · last yr.

From making an impact within capitalism to exploring neurodiversity and career shifts, next week offers spaces to grow together. Don't miss our special community talk where we'll see why pictures work better than words when designing systems. Join us to make sense of complex topics together.

📢 The NewCrafts Sessions are here! Dive into our curated collection of talks from past NewCrafts Conferences, now available on YouTube. Discover insights from leading software crafters and tech innovators. Watch now:

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NewCrafts is a conference for software practitioners who want to improve the quality of their software. Writing coherent code is only the first step. The bes...

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Here is a friendly idea for conferences and meetups to add BSky and Mastodon handles as social networks in CfP in addition to X/Instagram.

After an excellent detective with good humor 8 episodes of the series "The Residence," with amazing Uzo Aduba, there is always a question of how to find the next TV series :)

I finally celebrated the reexamination of my auto driver's license by this 2 wheeler. It's orange, smooth, silent and light. Very healthy, not bad ecological impact.

Hello! #introduction I'm Alex, a tech lead and team lead with technical and engineering management experience. I love systems in tech, and I'm trying to embed more humanistic and practical processes into the work. The bigger texts and talks are indexed here: aptakhin.name/published/

Cosmic Distance Calibration xkcd.com/3066

1/4 When I was thinking at the end of the year about what strategy is and how to approach it, Rumelt's book was recommended to me by Matt Weagle and @ruthmalan.bsky.social (Richard Rumelt ‘Good strategy. Bad strategy’). I was hooked by the things that explain what is not strategy.

If you are frustrated with tasks reworking and returning, priorities–my experience in the Berlin offline meetup on the 17th of April. Thanks to @jetbrains.com as the host and @sharovatov.bsky.social as moderator and inspirer. With video recording! www.meetup.com/quality-engi...

Quality Engineering meetup #6, Thu, Apr 17, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup

*In collaboration with* [JetBrains](https://www.jetbrains.com), *[Qase](https://qase.io) is presenting the **sixth** Meetup on Quality Engineering in Berlin.* *This time,

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My* work, as backgrounders for those considering my session(s): Free ebooks/pdfs: System Seeing Starter Kit: www.ruthmalan.com/systems/2025... System Design as *System* *Design*: www.ruthmalan.com/Bredemeyer/2... Architecture Principles: www.ruthmalan.com/systems/2025... Free to share

My teammate Izel invented "pear programming" – it's not yet pair programming, but it's a clarification and troubleshooting of things together. I love how it sounds

We would never make up an Individual Contributor term if we were more familiar with team forming and leadership instead of Continuous Isolation

Recently, I was searching for people giving TDD live courses, and people replied with a few recommendations. Even I can’t thoroughly recommend them as I didn’t check, this might be the list for searching start with some great names in alphabetical order: Jason Gorman: www.codemanship.co.uk ... #tdd

Okay, a postponing of wisdom teeth problem now doesn't sound like a solution. Locally looks fixed now, I'm better. Second issue I'm still doing things I can postpone, but not important ones. Now sounds like the same story, yeah?