The weirdest thing about the Iran war is the way the oil prices keeps bouncing up and down as if something good happened then something bad happened when in fact only bad things have happened.

🇪🇺 Die EZB hat heute die Entwürfe für die neue Euro-Banknotenserie veröffentlicht. Was uns besonders freut: die europäische Vogelwelt ist auf einigen der Designs präsent vertreten. Hier kannst du über dein Lieblingsdesign abstimmen: surveys.ecb.europa.eu/10b/neweuro/

Jens Spahn hat Windeln für 3.2 Milliarden Euro gekauft

It has been 30 years and I am still not on board with terminal UIs. GUIs are better. I don't know why we are as a profession allowing ourselves to regress.

Thinking about how AI has changed expectations far faster than it has changed actual capabilities for people in engineering management jobs (and probably others)

The less busy work you have the less appealing these Al tools are.

Bitte unterzeichnet unsere Petition gegen die IFG-Abschaffung! Das hilft uns dabei, Druck gegenüber der SPD aufzubauen. In den ersten 14 Stunden schon 120.000 Unterschriften!

FragDenStaat@fragdenstaat.de · last mo.

Die Spitzen von CDU, CSU und SPD wollen das Informationsfreiheitsgesetz abschaffen – einen Grundpfeiler unserer Demokratie. 2025 haben wir den Angriff der Union aufs IFG gemeinsam abgewehrt. Das schaffen wir auch heute – unterzeichnet jetzt unsere WeAct-Petition! weact.campact.de/petitions/sp...

Nothing says “dying civilization” like gladiator fights at the capitol for the emperor’s amusement.

Mystified at how code coverage, which was always a somewhat questionable idea in the first place, somehow metastisized to per-seat licensed tooling and so that's just a thing now

This is a fun read leehanchung.github.io/blogs/2026/0...

The AI Great Leap Forward

In 1958, Mao ordered every village to produce steel. The steel was useless. The crops rotted. Today's top-down AI mandates are producing the same pattern: ba...

leehanchung.github.io

And speaking of NPM (which GitHub owns), postinstall.js is a decision worth reconsidering. So is "always download the latest version of all dependencies". The justification was to push the latest security fixes immediately, but more often these days it pushes the latest malware immediately instead.

sorry Pink Floyd, turns out that we needed education. a lot of it. all of the education, really

The AI harness engineering hype is basically just people finding out that with leaner design, good encapsulation, simpler code, improved tools, working CI/CD and precise documentation one can be more effective at writing correct code.

Picard management tip: Tolerate failure, not incompetence. Learn the difference.

What I lost in Twitter, I found in Bluesky.

Friedrich Merz sagt: "Wir werden den Wohlstand nicht halten können mit 4-Tage-Woche und Work-Life-Balance." Aber was, wenn 4-Tage-Woche und Work-Life-Balance für die meisten von uns der eigentliche Wohlstand sind?"

New blog post, with a perhaps mildly unpopular opinion: jayconrod.com/posts/133/in...

Integration tests are best tests

Itegration tests are the most important kind of tests. You should strive for excellent integration test coverage and invest relatively little time in unit tests. I've believed this since I worked on c...

jayconrod.com

maybe the one good thing about the AI bubble is it made everyone forget the dumb crypto bubble

> The best way to set standards is [via] lightweight templates and ceremonies for information sharing, discussion, and decision-making. Every good senior manager should have some toolkit of these. 💯

Camille Fournier@skamille.themanagerswrath.com · 9mo ago

Can you believe I wrote about manager READMEs again? medium.com/@skamille/re... If you hate medium, you can also look at my ancient blogger where the formatting is a bit wonky: www.elidedbranches.com/2025/11/revi...

Success has many fathers, but failure is an orphan

Holy shit! That motherfucker TORE DOWN THE WHITE HOUSE!

AWS' post-outage summary is some dramatic reading: aws.amazon.com/message/1019...

How, in a democratic country, do you prevent people from voting for things that will actively harm them, but they think are a good idea?

We all learned a few key numbers in case of emergency. For example, in case of fire, dial 0118 999 881 119 725 3.

bleary (feat. Akon)@bleary.off-the-records.com · 10mo ago

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Die jetzige #SPD ist wie ein Fussballteam, dass versucht mit möglichst vielen Eigentoren seine Fans zurückzugewinnen.

I’ve noticed sprint commitments leading to blame and pressure, not partnership and progress.

What's going on with sound mixing? In the last few years, especially but not exclusively in British TV, the audio mix renders dialogue inaudible. The actors mumble; ambience and sometimes the music drowns them out. It wasn't always like this. /1

My recent perspective on search-assisted AI

"And the truth is, it's always about a buzzword. Whatever buzzword catches on becomes the obsession, and that's all people talk about for a couple of years until the next buzzword takes over and the cycle starts again." cutlefish.substack.com/p/tbm-376-wh...

TBM 376: Why Are We Organized Like This?

This post is about understanding why your company is organized and designed the way it is.

cutlefish.substack.com