People talk about building a harness, but for legacy modernization I think building a "shared brain" might be even more important. It's what me and @selrahcd.bsky.social used to replace a legacy system. 1/4 #legacyModernization #architectureModernization

Most introductions to DDD start with bounded contexts. Ours starts by asking whether DDD is aimed at a problem you actually have, and gives you twenty minutes to find out. What would your step three be?

Virtual Domain-Driven Design@virtualddd.com · 6h ago

Our new DDD starting point is an EventStorming timeline, so it ends in two empty stickies. Step three and beyond are not written yet, because we need to design that together. buff.ly/0btwtGn

I'd like to thank Donald for all he did ti help make this possible.

The Kyiv Independent@kyivindependent.com · 13h ago

⚡️Update: Russian ballistic missile attack kills 15, injures 51 in Kyiv and surrounding area as rescue efforts continue. A massive Russian attack killed 15 people and injured 51 others in Ukraine's capital and Kyiv Oblast as fires engulfed Kyiv and its suburbs, authorities reported Aug. 5.

Organisational Dysfunction of the Day The facilitator's toolkit Context: The facilitator is experienced and well-prepared. The workshop opens with an icebreaker to warm up the room. Post-its go up on the walls. Groups rotate through stations. After lunch, there is an energiser to lift...

Knock knock Race condition Who's there?

BP profits more than double to $5.7bn in three months as Iran war sends oil prices soaring - "While BP banks enormous profits, millions of households are paying the price" #energycrisis #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/business/202...

BP profits more than double as Iran war sends oil prices soaring

Energy company’s $5.73bn quarterly profits come after Shell posted second highest quarterly earnings on record

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We’re bringing IntelliJ IDEA’s intelligence to other editors! The new Java & Kotlin by IntelliJ IDEA extension is now available in a preview version for VS Code and all its forks, like Cursor and Antigravity. IntelliJ IDEA’s power – wherever you are. 👇 blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2026/08...

IntelliJ IDEA Goes LSP: Java and Kotlin Intelligence Comes to VS Code, Cursor, and Agentic Flows - The JetBrains Blog

It’s no secret that agentic development is changing how developers build software. As agents take on more and more of the implementation work, developers spend less and less time manually editing code

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Quand je lis certains posts de ma timeline

The Curse of Monkey Island (1997). The writing and art in this game hold up so well.

Prompt engineering, context engineering, harness engineering, loop engineering, graph engineering, dark factories, ... 🤯 Let's do a speedrun through all these concepts and look at what actually is worth diving into as a swe. youtu.be/j_r93YulrUE #agenticengineering

The state of agentic engineering mid-2026

YouTube video by Jo Van Eyck

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If what you are mapping is incoherent, don’t fall in love with the map (or your personal ability to navigate with it). Use it to refactor what you see. cutlefish.substack.com/p/tbm-434-ho...

TBM 434: How Maps Can Hide Problems

If what you are mapping is incoherent, don’t fall in love with the map (or your personal ability to navigate with it).

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I still love this one... 😄

Why do Apple bring out some decent TV shows, but then leave you waiting 2 years for a second season?

Warning: Even Advisory System Level: Severe.

My computer just woke me up to tell me it's hungry. I'm not kidding 😂 During a long-running task, it noticed the battery was draining, set the volume to 100% using Computer Use, then opened Google Translate and hit "Listen" so I could hear it asking. Pardon my French, but what the fuck? 🤯

Friday Developers Fun 🤣 Dev: It's a simple feature. The user will understand. The user: #developers #softwareengineering #meme #fridayhumor

morning

ok this was a good experiment. tabs in opencode are amazing can turn it on in settings in opencode2

Shell's profit more than doubles to $9.8 billion as Iran war boosts oil, gas prices reut.rs/4wOouzH

Shell's profit more than doubles to $9.8 billion as Iran war boosts oil, gas prices

Shell's adjusted earnings, its measure of net profit, ‌more than doubled from last year to $9.84 billion in the second quarter, beating expectations, helped by higher energy prices and increased market volatility during the Middle East conflict.

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So russian scum is doing another mass missile attack tonight because strategic jets are already in the air. I don't even explain how I feel after almost 4.5 years of this. Fucking 4.5 years. I already barely remember life without war. It's so distant and bleak. #UkrainianView 1/

Widow's Bay 🔥

New bonus episode of Still Burning is out. My conversation with my daughter, Beth Andres-Beck. Engineer, ex-self-driving-car programmer, organizer, now running for Congress. On tests, AI agents, and who's accountable when nobody's in the car. Listen and watch: share.transistor.fm/s/54f0099a

How Do You Know That? | Still Burning | Episode 9

A bonus edition by the fire: Kent talks with his oldest, Beth Andres-Beck — software engineer, one-time self-driving-car programmer, theater major, organizer, and now a candidate for Congress. They…

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Nice graph.

Frontier models blocked the defenders because of security so HF had to turn to an open-weights model (GLM 5.2). www.cnbc.com/2026/07/24/c...

How a Chinese AI model stopped OpenAI’s ‘unprecedented’ cyber attack

The origin of the model Hugging Face used to combat the rogue AI is turning heads.

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The full KanDDDinsky 2026 program is live. 38 sessions, 47 speakers, 14-15 October in Berlin. Early-bird tickets (800 EUR) close this Friday, 31 July. After that, 950. kandddinsky.com

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Some people's chats with Claude AI found publicly available online

Hundreds of conversations with Anthropic’s chatbot were discovered as being publicly accessible.

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Reasons include: 1. Realizing the role they were hired into is just a sh*t one to do right now. Thanks to AI, often unrealistic expectations 2. Realize the company they hired doesn't have a future/strategy to come out winning w AI

Interesting trend: CTO/ Head of Eng / VPE folks at startups and mid-sized companies are... leaving / burning out. Hiring for these roles is HARD, but even after filling the role, they will often leave a few months later and take a career break And they have v good reasons