On September 17, 1991, Linus released Linux 0.01 to a handful of curious users via FTP. No installer, barely a kernel, just ~10,000 lines of code that would grow into the OS running most of the internet. computernewb.com/wiki/Linux_0... #Linux35
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I enjoy crafting conference slides, but it takes time. NotebookLM turned my draft deck into some really good slides using my notes. About a 60% fit. I could clean them up, but it's obvious I didn't create them. The dilemma i feel is I'd lose credibility and authenticity presenting these slides.
The old on-prem TechEd was about understanding the product deeply and talking to the people building it. Cloud changed that. More complexity is abstracted away, and the focus shifted to consuming and extending services. Now AI is becoming another layer of abstraction.
Most AI dev workflows skip critical thinking and jump straight to code generation. AWS veteran Haider Lesa explains how to fix this - use a Socratic loop to guide engineers through architectural design and specs before agents generate a single line of code youtu.be/SXg08HPpKr8?...
AWS Veteran: How The Best Engineering Teams Run Agents
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5C at 9am, thankfully we got reverse cycle air-conditioning
OH: At some point in your career, English becomes your programming language.
a question for the people who write code for money: if you could wave a magic wand and have your performance/promotability measured on any 5 metrics of your choice, what would those metrics be?
The Java Story | The Official Documentary youtu.be/ZqGSg4b_cZA?...
The Java Story | The Official Documentary
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Annual Tech Worker AI Sentiment Survey Lenny is bullish on AI, and the results he shares here show real polarisation in positivity. What surprised me was how few people would recommend a career in tech today. The burnout, uncertainty, and fear of change tell the story. x.com/lennysan/sta...
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My biggest takeaways from @noamseg, diving into the results of our large-scale survey of tech workers in 2026: 1. The #1 fear in tech right now is not losing your job to AI—it’s being squeezed to do ...
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Nice to see @cbasis.bsky.social doing the keynote #hanatechcon and pointing out the ironies in tech marketing vs reality. From "HANA means no more DBAs" to "AI means no more developers". Same prophecy, new logo.
I really enjoyed #reCAP2026 and can't wait to watch the videos when I get home
Next up, my colleague Josh is showing how to implement runtime plugins in CAP Java, along with some really cool REPL-like features in IntelliJ. #reCAP2026
Watching my colleague Nick demo how Terraform can automate the provisioning of SAP BTP subaccounts and required resources as part of onboarding new tenants into a multitenant application. #reCAP2026
"Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM." AI wasn't hired, so the rule didn't apply to it.
Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social · 3w agoIBM stock cratered today after announcing it would miss analysts revenue expectations ($17.2B vs $17.86B expected) because their customers cut software spending to buy servers, storage, and memory ahead of anticipated price increases given demand from AI data centers. So much impact from AI.
Out of 190 third party packages, 81 had a single maintainer. Takeaway, every dependency or plugin you install is a stranger in your supply chain. #reCAP2026
Interesting contrast in the recap keynote. Annotate your services with MCP and Agent (A2A) and you can achieve things in seconds that would take a long time to do in the UI. #reCAP2026
Saw lots of cool stuff at UI5con yesterday, but it felt like much of it will only land on My Home and ABAP, not Work Zone and CAP. Let's see if today proves me wrong.
Heard on The Pragmatic Engineer AMA podcast. "Congratulations, you're now a middle manager. A manager of managers whose job is to keep your manager happy." The answer to why people leave a steady job to start startups.
True. And the chaos is often driven by people who mistake authority for expertise.
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If You are Asking for Human Attention, Demonstrate Human Effort | Tom Bedor's Blog
An ever-increasing volume of debug investigations, document writing, and code is written by robots. This has created a new etiquette question when working with a team - when is it OK to forward the ou...
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