Your regular reminder that microservices are typically *not* containers in C4. Much of the confusion comes from (1) terminology (what is a "microservice"?) and (2) team boundaries/Conway's Law/code ownership/repo boundaries. tl;dr please don't do this ⬇️

Mein erster Kinospielfilm "NOVEMBER" (2003) gratis zum Anschauen: Eine Familie aus dem Schweizer Mittelstand gewinnt im Swiss Lotto. Das grosse Glück vor Augen, steuern sie auf einen gefährlichen Abgrund zu. vimeo.com/272785383?fbclid=I…

Some people are assimilating the risks associated with pandemics with the risks associated with AI progress. There is a fundamental difference. Pandemics are natural phenomena. We can take preventive measures before they happen and plan for corrective measures in case they do. AI progress is not a natural phenomenon. *We* propel it forward. We have agency. We can choose to develop it or not. We can strive to develop beneficial forms of it. And we can choose to deploy it only if it is beneficial. Comparing the two is total nonsense.

Mehr Holacracy im Bundesrat? liip.ch/de/blog/selbst-organ…

I love that while the 10x programmer is still a controversial concept to some in the tech world, Steve Jobs went straight for the claim that 50-100x programmers are possible.

Wenn eine Firma ein E-Voting System bauen will, sollte sie von ihren Mitarbeitenden nicht verlangen regelmässig das Passwort zu ändern. #security #bestpractice

The @FTC is investigating @OpenAI and the document outlining their questions is fascinating. 🧵Some highlights:

Criminals like #Play see the smoke, they know there must be fire, a wrong attitude towards HTTP security headers and generally a lack of security awareness by companies like #Xplain.

This is perhaps the biggest secret to the productivity and viability of our two-person teams at 37signals. All our web designers work directly with the native materials of HTML, CSS, and usually even a fair bit of JavaScript and Ruby. Not in Figma. world.hey.com/dhh/design-for…

Confession: I don‘t use ORMs. Why? Why should I. Not needed.

Was viele bei der Klimakrise falsch verstehen und was uns die Lage in Frankreich gerade so brutal vor Augen führt: Wenn der Staat uns heute nicht vorschreibt, wie wir heizen dürfen, wird er uns morgen vorschreiben müssen, wann wir den Wasserhahn aufdrehen dürfen und wann nicht.

ChatGPT is the modern version of Flaubert's "Dictionary of Received Ideas" (Dictionnaire des idées reçues), that is, a powerful cliché parroting engine. And, as they say in trading: "what most people know isn't worth knowing."

Your peers will be more grateful when you ask them for advice than when you give them advice.

Morgen in Bern for "MAINTENANCE. AUTOMATED. Software-Wartung mit dem Renovate Bot in der Praxis" mit @bertolami Bring deine Kollegen mit! Hier geht es zur Anmeldung: jug.ch/html/events/2023/reno…

Will be talking about our approach to software maintenance at @jugch in Bern next Wednesday. Would be nice seeing you there. Details and registration: jug.ch/html/events/2023/reno…

Would you call it creativity? #DALL-E #GenerativeAI

2. Godfather of AI Quit Google Geoffrey Hinton, who has been publishing about AI since 1972, was known as the 'Godfather of AI'. He helped neural networks succeed when mainstream AI preferred the reasoning approach.

🧵1/n So, $paceX launched its big rocket in a nature reserve. After the failed (it's a failure if you blow up the launch pad and the flight abort system fails) launch as of yet unknown particles rained down in a town 10km away (tpr.org/technology-entrepren…) but it gets worse.

Super detailed written user stories are a sign your team is not collaborating.

Not to bad. #ChatGPT #regex