El vaquilla torna a actuar

Me: I should be more positive.
Also me:

Every day I have a look at Techcrunch latest stories and every single day I have the same questions after seeing the crazy amount of money that are being invested in AI. "Should we really be building these tools?" Is this the right thing to build now? is there really a need for all of this?

Good on Signal! https://signal.org/blog/signal-doesnt-recall/

Not only are they doing the right thing, they’re publishing a clear, forceful, and occasionally amusing write-up on how and why:

For Example: <quote>“Take a screenshot every few seconds” legitimately sounds like a suggestion from a low-parameter LLM that was given a prompt like “How do I add an arbitrary AI feature to my operating system as quickly as possible in order to make investors happy?”

After seeing the new tools and features that are announced in the big tech companies developer conferences I cannot stop thinking that these guys have lost all sense of what's needed in real life.

I'm writing some "Green Software guidelines" for my company. I think it's turning out nicely.

In feudal times, the rich didn’t pay taxes and the peasants worked until they died. Now, the rich don’t pay taxes and the peasants work until they die—but at least you have Netflix!

A useful hack for achieving 5 9's of uptime is to lower your standards. It's much easier to hit 9.9999% uptime than 99.999%.

Nice overview of how software architects handle complexity at Decathlon: https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/07/decathlon-architecture-process/ kind of reminds me of a talk I gave with my boss some years ago when I was in Wefox. #softwarearchitecture

new t shirt or coffee cup design? too soon?

@lapesanta de les meves preferides!

Inside of you, there are two wolves. None of them read documentation.

Every time I read any USA politics related news I think of the Foundation, how the Empire started to crumble down.

#whataweekhuh

Great news everyone! I finally talk about AI hype. Someone finally mentioned LLMs one time too many, and the reckoning is upon us:

https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fucking-piledrive-you-if-you-mention-ai-again/

@paul4kant I think the cat does not approve.

Are you a technical writer based in Poland? Bardzo dobrze! We're looking for two (2!) writers. Interested? Message me. Not interested? Boost :-)

My @TheLeadDev talk from the 2023 Berlin conference has just been published on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4QAzayhljg

I talk about two different approaches of managing software architecture that I've experienced (a more self-organized "guild" approach, and an "enabling team" as in @TeamTopologies ) and some observations I've made.

#softwarearchitecture #teamtopologies #flow #architecturemanagement #engineeringmanagement

In my documentation post I mention Ice Panel (https://icepanel.io/)
, which is a great tool that implements some of my main needs to document an architecture.

It has the concept of "levels", to document different layers of the same system, as well as grouping them in domains. As well as versioning of course.

From my point of view, the most important feature is "Linking to Reality" (https://docs.icepanel.io/advanced-features/linking-to-reality) which is a way to link a part of the documents to the real code.

While the feature is currently "simple" I'm very excited to see how further versions develop this into more real-world complex solutions.

#documentation #softwarearchitecture