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Got that Alderaan postcard vibe

Listening to 'Writing for Developers: Blogs That Get Read' and realizing they're not just talking about building your tech brand. They're talking about writing ideas so compelling they transcend our little technology cliques entirely and hit the top of Hacker News. github.com/scynthiadunl...

How to Develop Your Skills to Become a Principal Engineer - I like the broken comb metaphor www.infoq.com/news/2025/06...

I love rants like these. Swap Rust for NodeJS and it's the same async tale, starts with ‘what even is async,’ ends with a toolkit of hammers you use to beat yourself in the head. bitbashing.io/async-rust.h...

TDD, AI agents and coding with Kent Beck - some good hot takes in here "90% of my skills went to $0 and 10% of my skills went up 1000%", AI coding is "an unpredictable genie" be careful how you wish newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/tdd-ai-age...

OH: Enterprise Architects are story tellers "Remember us"

Is "Clean Core" the Enterprise bikeshed? Parkinson's Law of Triviality - we obsess over what we understand while ignoring what really matters. SAP teams debate customization purity endlessly. Meanwhile, the real question - whether these 20-year-old processes should exist at all - never gets asked.

Event-Driven Side Effects (from next version) ui5.sap.com/1.136.1/#/to... - available in ABAP hopefully drops in CAP soon, very easy to configured, just need a STOMP or WS server

Liking the sound of this, a code-first, resilient orchestration framework, covering outbox, inbox, background tasks, and SAGA / Workflow patterns. Reminds me of masstransit.io developer productivity features that go far beyond what middleware like CPI alone can offer cap.cloud.sap/docs/guides/...

Fire and ice, cold this morning

TOGAF shows up in every second job ad these days. Classic “draw the owl” situation: enterprise architects sketch the future state, then the SI is left to “choose your own adventure” for the implementation.

My Obsidian note taking workflow - I use Obsidian daily religiously for note taking, I like the whole second brain concept www.ssp.sh/blog/obsidia...

OH: every development team has a Lloyd Braun type (Serenity Now)

There's a Clean Core Academy

Stack Overflow almost dead by @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com 2020 saw the zirp tech boom, lots of non classic Devs enter market, 2021 SO got bought by PE wanting to cash in, signal to noise went from very bad to worse, moderation fell off blog.pragmaticengineer.com/stack-overfl...

Four paradoxes of software development www.infoworld.com/article/3957...

The Recurring Cycle of 'Developer Replacement' Hype alonso.network/the-recurrin...

OH: The problem is interviews reward people who confidently propose solutions, even bad ones, over people who demonstrate proper consulting discipline.

A practical guide to Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) newsletter.techworld-with-milan.com/p/the-art-an...

The key to technical debt is knowing when to take it on strategically vs when to pay it down before you're firefighting daily. Google's logical approach, 10 debt categories to focus on what's actually blocking teams from delivering value. newsletter.techworld-with-milan.com/p/how-google...

Rick Rubin: Vibe Coding is the Punk Rock of Software - as always, Rick brings an interesting lens to creativity, here mixing old and new philosophy with a DIY ethos "all art is a version of sampling and remixing" youtu.be/7s9C92Pkcc0?...